Center for Advanced Materials Research

The Center for Advanced Materials Research fosters inter-disciplinary, multi-investigator research and education.

The fruits from basic materials research can be arguably viewed as precursors to most breakthroughs in 20th century technologies. The underlying research was usually conducted along well defined avenues of established disciplines: structural/mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, solid state physics, chemistry and chemical engineering, and so on, mirroring the departmental structure in university science departments. As the next century beckons, it is becoming quite evident that increasingly multifunctional or 'smart' materials will emerge as the new frontier of not only materials sciences but within modern physical sciences as a whole. In this new era of materials research, truly pioneering activity that opens new fields of scholarship and technology will require the merging of many traditionally separate, sometimes isolated disciplines of sub-disciplines. Within CAMR, we strive to implement this philosophy on Brown campus, in close collaboration with academic departments, to establish forward looking and innovative approaches to BOTH research and education within the broad realm of physical sciences that define modern materials sciences. As a result we present the CAMR block research groups:

MRSEC: Materials Research Science & Engineering Center on Micro and Nano- Mechanics of Electronic and Structural Materials.		MURI '99: Multi-University Research Initiative on Virtual Testing & Design of Materials: A Multiscale Approach.
MURI '00: Multi-University Research Initiative on Phonon Enhancement of Optoelectronics and Electronic Devices.		BIO-INFO-MICRO: Coupling of Brain with Microstructured Electronic/ Optoelectronic Arrays: Interactive Computation at the Bio/Info/Micro Interface.
OPTOELECTRONIC CENTER: Optoelectronics Center for Innovative Photonic Chipscale Technologies.		GENERAL MOTORS: GM Satellite Research Laboratory for Computational Materials Research on Computational Design of Durable Lightweight Materials: from Atoms to Autos.

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