Centers & Facilities
MRI coordinates, administers, and supports several state-of-the-art research, fabrication, and characterization facilities at Penn State that are available to the academic and non-academic research communities. These shared facilities are staffed with full-time technical personnel who train researchers to use the instrumentation and tools themselves or assist researchers with their charcterization and fabrication needs. The materials research centers are founded by faculty teams with the experience and expertise to address specific areas requiring an interdisciplinary approach, and are supported by industry and/or US government funding.
MRI Shared User Facilities
- Keck Smart Materials Integration Lab (Keck SMIL)
- Materials Characterization Lab (MCL)
- Materials Simulation Center (MSC)
- Nanofabrication Laboratory (Nanofab)
MRI Research Centers
- Center for Computational Materials Design (CCMD)
- Center for Dielectric Studies (CDS)
- Center for Innovative Sintered Products (CISP)
- Center for Nanoscale Science (CNS) - MRSEC
- Center for Solar Nanomaterials
- Center for the Study of Polymer Systems (CSPS)
- International Center for Actuators and Transducers (ICAT)
Other Facilities
- Advanced Coatings Lab
- Electron Microscopy Facility - Huck
- Mechanical Testing Laboratory (MTL)
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
- Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Core Facility
- Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center
Other PSU Research Organizations
- Applied Research Laboratory (ARL)
- Center for Optical Technologies (COT)
- Center for Single Crystal Piezoelectric Materials
- Composites Manufacturing Technology Center
- Electrochemical Engine Center (ECEC)
- Electro-Optics Center (EOC)
- Energy Institute
- H2E Center
- Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
- International Materials Institute (IMI): New Functionality in Glasses
- National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN)
- Penn State Institutes of Energy & the Environment
- Penn State Institute for CyberScience (ICS)
- Penn State Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)

