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Screening Opportunities Navigation MRSEC Home Page About MRSEC Research Highlights Education & Outreach Facilities For Industry People Welcome to the Center for Nanoscale Science The Center for Nanoscale Science is a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) supported by the National Science Foundation under grant DMR-1420620. The Center supports collaborative, interdisciplinary research efforts in the area of nanoscale materials. IRG 1 - Designing Functionality into Layered Ferroics IRG1 - Designing Functionality into Layered Ferroics IRG 2 - Powered Motion at the Nanoscale IRG2 - Powered Motion at the Nanoscale IRG 3 - High-Pressure Enabled Electronic Metalattices IRG 3 - High-Pressure Enabled Electronic Metalattices IRG 4 - Multicomponent Assemblies for Collective Function IRG 4 - Multicomponent Assemblies for Collective Function MRSEC Outreach Teams MRSEC grads and Upward Bound students bond at Arts Fest Kids Day. Interdisciplinary Research Groups Currently the Center is composed of four (4) Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRG). Common themes of complex materials synthesis and length scale dependent physical phenomena permeate all four of the IRGs. These research themes are integrated with major efforts in educational and industrial outreach. News at MRSEC New class of materials shows strange electron properties Sheng...