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Materials

NSF funds new research centers

by Andrea Widener
March 14, 2016 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 94, Issue 11

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Credit: Joan Redwing/Penn State University
Bismuth selenide film is one of the materials the newly funded centers will study.
Bismuth selenide film showing crystalline structure in the shape of small triangles.
Credit: Joan Redwing/Penn State University
Bismuth selenide film is one of the materials the newly funded centers will study.

Pennsylvania State and Cornell Universities have won the first awards in NSF’s Materials Innovation Platforms program. The universities will serve as research centers for materials scientists nationwide who want to use high-end instruments to study bulk and thin-film crystalline materials. “NSF is focusing on crystal growth because the U.S. has fallen behind in this area of science after having been a global leader in material synthesis,” says F. Fleming Crim, NSF assistant director for mathematical and physical sciences. The effort is part of the Materials Genome Initiative’s goal to halve the speed and cost of taking materials discoveries from the lab to industry. Penn State will develop instruments to study metal chalcogenide materials—such as sulfides, selenides, and tellurides—that are used in digital circuits and flexible electronics. Cornell is heading a multi-institution team that includes Johns Hopkins, Clark Atlanta, and Princeton Universities. It will focus on examining oxide and oxide-based two-dimensional films on new substrates to accelerate development of new electronics.

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