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Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
J. E. Greene, Director
2015 Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, 104 South Goodwin, MC-230, Urbana, IL 61801-2985
217-333-1370 • http://www.mrl.uiuc.edu

The Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory (FS-MRL) supports materials research in cooperation 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, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering; and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

Several major central facilities for materials research are operated by FS-MRL. These include the Center for Microanalysis of Materials, a DOE National User Center that has instrumentation for the nanoscale characterization of the structure and microchemistry of materials, and the EpiCenter for synthesis of wide spectrum single crystals, thin films, multilayers, and artificially tailored materials by MBE, CBE, and MOCVD. Other major units are the Computer Facility, Laser Laboratory, Microfabrication Facility, and High-Temperature Facility.

FS-MRL also supports a large number of smaller specialized facilities. Two beamline sectors at the Advanced Photon Source, a synchrotron-based x-ray source located at Argonne National Laboratory, and two beamlines at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory are operated by FS-MRL.

Researchers at the University of Illinois, other universities, national laboratories, and industry are welcome to use FS-MRL facilities.

Efforts at the FS-MRL are focused on interdisciplinary research and include programs supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. Three major programs are metals and ceramics, solid-state sciences, and materials chemistry. In addition, a number of multi-investigator programs are 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 and properties of ceramics, lattice defects and deformation and fracture of solids, and mesoscopic materials. These programs and others develop from faculty research initiatives within the structure of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory.

Faculty associated with the FS-MRL are listed below.

Department of Chemical Engineering
V. Gupta
E. G. Seebauer
C. F. Zukoski

Department of Chemistry
P. Bohn
D. Dlott
A. A. Gewirth
G. Girolami
W. G. Klemperer
T. Martinez
R. I. Masel
J. S. Moore
R. G. Nuzzo
K. S. Suslick
A. Wieckowski
A. Scheeline

Department of Computer Science
E. De Sturler
P. Saylor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
S. Bishop
J. J. Coleman
J. P. Leburton

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
J. Abelson
R. S. Averback
P. Bellon
P. Braun
D. G. Cahill
H. Chen
G. Ehrlich
S. Granick
J. E. Greene
D. D. Johnson
J. Lewis
D. A. Payne
I. Petrov
I. M. Robertson
A. A. Rockett
K. S. Schweizer
J. Shang
J. H. Weaver
G. C. L. Wong
J. Zuo

Department of Mathematics
R. Sowers


Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
A. Pearlstein

Department of Physics
D. Ceperley
T. C. Chiang
S.L. Cooper
K. Dahmen
C. P. Flynn
P. M. Goldbart
L. H. Greene
R. M. Martin
I. K. Robinson
M. B. Salamon
P. Selvin
R. O. Simmons
C. P. Slichter
D. Van Harlingen
J. P. Wolfe
A. Yazdani

Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
K. J. Hsia
P. Sofronis
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