Platforms

The 2DCC-MIP combines a vibrant in-house research effort focused on transformative advances in the synthesis and characterization of 2D chalcogenide layered materials with a robust external user program that provides access to expertise and state-of-the-art facilities. The 2DCC-MIP platform enables cutting edge research and discovery, across in-house research and the user program, on the synthesis and characterization of 2D chalcogenide materials by a national user community guided by four science drivers: Physics of 2D Systems, Epitaxy of 2D Chalcogenides, Next-generation 2D Electronics, and Advanced Characterization and Modeling.

ARM-MIP is an NSF-funded, open-access national user facility at Texas A&M University that designs, makes, tests, and learns from new alloys in a single autonomous laboratory, integrating robotics, artificial intelligence, physics-based simulation, and automated experimentation. Housed on the Texas A&M University System RELLIS Campus, ARM-MIP is the first MIP devoted to metals, giving researchers from universities, national laboratories, and industry hands-on and remote access to autonomous alloy discovery.

BioPACIFIC MIP is a platform dedicated to scalable production of bio-derived building blocks and polymers from yeast, fungi, and bacteria. Automated high-throughput synthesis and characterization of bio-derived polymers aims to accelerate discovery and speed development of new high-performance materials.

BioPACIFIC MIP is a platform dedicated to scalable production of bio-derived building blocks and polymers from yeast, fungi, and bacteria. Automated high-throughput synthesis and characterization of bio-derived polymers aims to accelerate discovery and speed development of new high-performance materials.

GlycoMIP is an NSF-funded national user facility and multidisciplinary research program that addresses scientific and technological bottlenecks in glycomaterials research. A partnership between Virginia Tech, the University of Georgia, Brandeis University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, GlycoMIP accelerates glycomaterials discovery and development through leading-edge research and a state-of-the-art user facility.

MATRIX-MIP is an NSF-funded Materials Innovation Platform at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that provides open access to advanced tools and expertise for discovering and developing materials that can operate in extreme environments, such as very high temperatures, mechanical stress, corrosion, and radiation. Working with Argonne National Laboratory, the platform brings together materials synthesis, manufacturing, characterization, testing, modeling, and artificial intelligence in a single user-centered platform, anchored by the new Hard Materials Lab.

PARADIM helps users design and create new interface materials — materials that do not exist in nature — with unprecedented properties for the next generation of electronic devices. Creating new interface materials with unprecedented properties, by design rather than by serendipity, is accomplished in PARADIM through a synergistic set of user facilities dedicated to theory (figuring out where to put the atoms for useful behavior), synthesis (putting the atoms in the targeted positions), and characterization (seeing that the atoms are indeed in the desired positions).