Materials Characterization and Synthesis
The facilities in this core help researchers understand their materials and synthesize new materials. The capabilities include measuring composition, structure and certain physical properties. The laboratories also offer an extensive suite of microscopes to image samples from the macro scale to the atomic scale.
Eyring Materials Center
The Eyring Materials Center provides academic and industry researchers with expertise and instrumentation for materials characterization; surface, optical and structural analysis; and high-resolution electron microscopy. It supports materials analysis across a broad range of scientific disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biological sciences, earth and space sciences, and engineering.
Metals, Environmental and Terrestrial Analytical Laboratory
METAL is a dual location facility with instrumentation and staff to support diverse research, such as nutrient analysis by colorimetry/flow-injection, surface area and porosity measurement, isotopic analysis of greenhouse gases, and elemental and isotopic analyses of natural and synthetic materials.
Facility for Open Research in a Compressed Environment
FORCE provides unique facilities for high-pressure research, simulating conditions that are not directly observable, such as the interiors of planets. Pressure is a powerful variable that is used in many disciplines, including Earth, planetary and materials sciences.
Adaptive Intelligent Materials and Systems
The AIMS Center specializes in material characterization, multiscale methods, damage detection and assessment, and structural health monitoring. By using combined experimental and modeling techniques, the AIMS Center has developed a state-of-the-art materials research center.
Manufacturing Innovation Center
The Manufacturing Innovation Center brings people and ideas together to solve the current manufacturing problems our industry is facing and to develop and generate ideas for future manufacturing and materials technologies. The goal is to create cross disciplinary teams to perform use-inspired research and to link our discoveries to innovations that ultimately benefit society.