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.
Shared User Facilities
- Keck Smart Materials Integration Lab (Keck SMIL)
- Materials Characterization Lab (MCL)
- Materials Simulation Center (MSC)
- Nanofabrication Laboratory (Nanofab)
Research Centers
- Center for Dielectric Studies (CDS)
- Center for Innovative Sintered Products (CISP)
- Center for the Study of Polymer Systems (CSPS)
- International Center for Actuators and Transducers (ICAT)
- Center for Nanoscale Science (CNS)
- Microwave Processing and Engineering Center (MPEC)
- Particulate Materials Center (PMC)
- Center for Computational Materials Design (CCMD)
Research Networks
Other Facilities
Other PSU Research Centers
- 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
- Institute of CyberScience
- International Materials Institute (IMI): New Functionality in Glasses
- Laser Processing Division
