UMN Materials Research Science and Engineering Center @ University of Minnesota
This multifaceted MRSEC enables important areas of future technology, ranging from biomedicine, separations, and plastic electronics to security, renewable energy, and information technology. The UMN MRSEC manages an extensive program in education and career development. Center research activities are integrated with educational programs, providing interdisciplinary training of students and postdocs. The MRSEC is bolstered by a broad complement of over 35 companies that contribute directly to IRG research through intellectual, technological, and financial support. International research collaborations and student exchanges are pursued with leading research labs in Asia and Europe. The UMN MRSEC benefits from an extensive suite of materials synthesis, characterization and computational facilities.
Research Groups
- IRG IV Nanoparticle-Based Materials
- IRG III Magnetic Heterostructures
- IRG II Organic Optoelectronic Interfaces
- IRG I Engineered Multiblock Polymers
Program Highlights
- January 17, 2013 First Observation of Hall Effect in Polymer Transistors
- January 16, 2013 First All-Gas Phase Manufacture of a Nanocrystal Based Electronic Device
- January 16, 2013 Low Resistivity Magnetic Nano-Sensors
- May 16, 2012 Multiblock Polymers: Panacea or Pandora’s Box
- January 19, 2012 Imaging ‘Invisible’ Dopant Atoms in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
- January 18, 2012 Why Most Plastics Can’t be Metals
- January 18, 2012 High Efficiency Silicon Nanocrystal Light Emitting Devices
- January 26, 2011 Printed, Flexible Carbon Nanotube Digital Circuits