The Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) supports materials research incooperation with the faculty and students of the departments of Chemistry,Chemical Engineering, Physics, Materials Science and Engineering,Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering,Nuclear Engineering, and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. MRL alsooperates major central facilities for materials research. These includeinstrumentation for the characterization of the structure andmicrochemistry of materials, for synthesis and preparation of a widespectrum of materials and single crystals, for the growth of thin films,multilayers, and artificially tailored materials by MBE, CBE, MOCVD, andother methods. Other major facilities are the Computer Facility, Laser Laboratory, Microfabrication Facility, and High-Temperature Facility. MRL also supports a large number of smaller specialized facilities. Two beamline sectors at the Advanced Photon Source, a synchroton based x-ray source located at Argonne National Laboratory, and two beam lines at the National Synchroton Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory are operated by MRL.

   MRL welcomes use of its facilities by researchers at theUniversity of Illinois, other universities, National Laboratories, andindustry.

   MRL focuses its efforts on interdisciplinary research and operates programssupported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National ScienceFoundation. It has three major programs: metals and ceramics (DOE), solid-statesciences (DOE), and the Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity (NSF) and a number of multi-investigator programs sponsored by federal agencies. Within these programs, major research areas are superconductivity, electronic and transport properties of solids, catalysis, interfaces and properties of modulated structures, organic and polymeric materials, semiconductor physics, theory and computational methods for materials, radiation effects, synthesis andproperties of ceramics, lattice defects and deformation and fracture ofsolids, and mesoscopic materials. These programs and others develop fromfaculty research initiatives within the structure of the Materials ResearchLaboratory.

Faculty associated with MRL are listed below. Research projects conductedin the College of Engineering are described in the respective departmentalsections.

Department of Chemical Engineering

R. C. Alkire
H. G. Drickamer
E. G. Seebauer
C. F. Zukoski

Department of Chemistry

P. W. Bohn
H. G. Drickamer
A. A. Gewirth
G. S. Girolami
W. G. Klemperer
J. S. Moore
R. Nuzzo
T. B. Rauchfuss
A. Scheeline
K. S. Suslick
A. Wieckowski

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

R. S. Averback
H. K. Birnbaum
P. Braun
D. Cahill
H. H. Chen
G. Ehrlich
J. M. Gibson
S. Granick
J. E. Greene
D. Johnson
J. Lewis
D. A. Payne
I. Petrov
I. M. Robertson
A. A. Rockett
K. Schweizer
S. I. Stupp
D. Viehland
A. Zangvil

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

D. F. Socie
A. Pearlstein

Department of Physics

T-C. Chiang
S. L. Cooper
H. G. Drickamer
J. Eckstein
C. P. Flynn
D. M. Ginsberg
P. M. Goldbart
L. Greene
M. V. Klein
A. J. Leggett
R. M. Martin
D. Pines
I. Robinson
M. B. Salamon
R. O. Simmons
C. P. Slichter
D. J. Van Harlingen
J. P. Wolfe
A. Yazdani

Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

K. J. Hsia
P. Sofronis