The Materials Research 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. NSF MRSEC centers are geographically spread throughout the United States at major research university which greatly enhances the ability for researchers from other institutions to gain access to the wide array of instrumentation and facilities presently available. The goal of the Facilities Network is to provide users with unprecedented access to instruments, techniques and collaborators in order to enhance their studies of the synthesis, characterization and theory of materials. A major focus of the Facilities Network is to encourage the study of materials and to enable as wide a diversity of researchers access to their cutting-edge tools. The members of the MRSEC Facilities Network are the University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Massachusetts Amherst; University of Minnesota; University of Wisconsin Madison; Princeton University; Washington University; University of Maryland; University of Pennsylvania; Northwestern; Yale; Carnegie Mellon; and Brown University. 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.

Please direct any questions or comments to mrfn-info @ mrl.ucsb.edu


MRFN Safety - For safety information, please visit individual MRSEC websites.


MRFN Coordinators

Professor Craig Hawker MRFN Coordinator Director of UCSB Materials Research Laboratory Phone: (805) 893-7161 Fax: (805) 893-8797 Rm. 3005, Materials Research Building University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: hawker@mrl.ucsb.edu	Professor Marek Urban USM Facilities Coordinator and Director of USM School of Polymers and High Performance Materials Phone: (601)-266-6454 Fax: (601)-266-5504 Room 185, Polymer Science Building, 118 College Drive #10076 University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg,MS 39406-0001 Email: Marek.Urban@usm.edu
Professor Timothy Lodge UMN Facilities Coordinator and Director of UMN Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Phone: (612) 625-0877 Fax:   Rm. 235, Smith Hall 207 Pleasant Street SE, Univeristy of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Email: lodge@chem.umn.edu	Professor Thomas P. Russell UMass Facilities Coordinator and Director of UMass Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Phone: (413)-545-2680 Fax: (413)-577-1510 Room A516, 120 Governors Drive, Conte Research Center University of Massachusetts - Amherst Amherst, MA 01003 Email: russell@mail.pse.umass.edu
Professor Juan J. de Pablo UWM MRSEC Director and Howard Curler Distinguished Professor Phone: 608/262-7727 Fax: 608/262-5434 University of Wisconsin Madison 3018 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706-1691 Email: depablo@engr.wisc.edu