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The MRSEC Facilities Network is a nationwide partnership of NSF supported MRSEC centers designed to provide support to researchers in the broad area of Materials Research in academic, government and industrial laboratories around the world.
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The Materials Research Facilities Network (MRFN) is a collaborative effort
established between the MRSEC facilities at the University of California at
Santa Barbara (UCSB), the University of Minnesota, the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the
University of Wisconsin at Madison, which is focused on increasing the
visibility and usage of analytical and computational instrumental centers
within the materials, engineering, and overall greater scientific community.
The overall goal of the MRFN is to function as a national network that supports
and promotes the growth of the materials science field in the US, as well as
increase its ability to compete internationally. Each center will address the
growing need for advanced characterization and computational tools from both
academic (large and small colleges) and industrial scientists in materials
research. By providing users with unprecedented access to instruments,
techniques and collaborators in order to enhance their studies of the
synthesis, characterization and theory of materials, the individual MRSEC
facilities will integrate the capabilities of materials research centers into a
cooperating network.
In an effort to become a role model for MRSEC networks in general, the success
of the MRFN provides enhanced coordination between MRSEC’s, as well as greater
exposure of the benefits of the MRSEC program, to the larger materials society.
Additionally, the MRSEC Facilities Network will be further promoted to the
broad materials community with a focus on both primarily undergraduate and
minority serving institutions, while also building inter-MRSEC collaborations.
Users are invited to submit short proposals requesting access to the
state-of-the-art instruments and techniques, and to the highly skilled staff.
Limited financial support is available to supplement both the users fees as
well as travel costs at all network partners with preference given to
undergraduate and minority institutions.
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