Open Directory - Science: Technology: Materials: Research Groups and Centers
See also: This category in other languages: - Research and development of smart materials, piezoelectric materials, shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive composites, and health monitoring and microelectromechanical systems. - The electron microscopy and X-ray Diffraction facility offers services to the academic and industry communities and informs about facilities, services and hourly user fee rates. - The Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research is an interdisciplinary research organization with the mandate to develop, support and co-ordinate all materials research-related activities at McMaster University - Presents its main activities, including a list of publications. [Santiago, Chile] - CLRI is a governmental organization dedicated to research, development, education and training in the Indian leather industry. Extensive list of services and publications. Links to related sites. - Solid and fluid mechanics, metal and polymer physics and chemistry. - Specializing in conducting studies on biomaterials, textiles, metals, modeling, nanotechnology, and polymers. Page includes events and current projects. Located in Australia. - University of Nevada, Reno, researches in the field of advanced intelligent materials, such as magnetorheological fluids and their applications. - An internationally recognised centre in teaching and research in the field corrosion science and technology. Page lists current research projects, facilities, and PhD internships available. - A contract research firm specialized in the characterization of pharmaceuticals offering cGMP/GLP characterisation based on X-Ray Powder Diffraction XRD (XRPD), Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS), and complementary methods. Based in The Netherlands. Presents details on services and methods. - Research programme on magnetic and superconducting materials, oxides, nitrides and carbides. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. - Research, development and commercialization of materials and manufacturing technology. - Research and development in the field of materials, especially high-performance ceramics, polymers and composites as well as on concrete, wood and biocompatible materials. - Promote and strengthen technology transfer nationwide. 700 major federal laboratories and centers and their parent departments and agencies are FLC members. - The Steel and Metallic Materials Technological Centre is focused on applied research in the metal industry. The Non-Metallic Materials Technological Centre is focused on research into ceramic and refractory materials, plastic and building materials and the packaging industry. - The applied research arm of the Institute provides information on its work and the capabilities of its laboratories. - Research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, is focused on different forms of matter including concrete and other brittle disordered materials, wood, steel and stainless steel. - The University of Siegen, Germany, works in the interdisciplinary area of building and material chemistry. - The Institute is engaged in the development of processes for production and application of synthetic diamond, cubic boron nitride and other superhard materials, high-density high-tech ceramics, and cemented carbides. - Research is focused on the mechanics and physics of high rate deformation and fracture. Includes details of activities and people, movies and publications. - Laboratory offers services in material and environmental research by means of electron microscopy and scanning force microscopy, image analysis, scientific consulting and seminars. Bonn, Germany. - Experimental research group based in Palermo, Italy, and working in the field of amorphous materials. - Contains general information, departments, equipment of the laboratories and currently research topics. [Madrid, Spain] - Technology development organization representing private industry, performing generic studies on materials of construction used in the process industries. Information about membership and projects, and newsletter archive. - Company in Arizona whose research areas include advanced composites and coatings, fullerenes and nanotubes, porous materials, and energy conversion systems (batteries, fuel cells, gas storage). - Department of Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland. Undertaking research into functional ceramics, structural ceramics, colloidal chemistry for ceramic processing and modelling materials behaviour using the CALPHAD approach. - Undertaking research into fabrication and materials, synchrotron methods and device physics. Includes people, techniques and publications. - Investigation of non-Newtonian fluids, suspensions, dispersions and mixtures of fluids and bulk materials by rheological analysis and identification tests. - Geotechnical Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma - Research at MERI covers a broad range of topics including thin films and sensors, physical vapour deposition, semiconductor characterisation, theory of semiconductor materials and optics, and photovoltaics. - Undertaking research into advanced materials that are being developed for high technology applications. - Graduate education and research in materials science and engineering. Includes overview, research areas, personnel profiles and facilities. - National institute for research and development of the Romanian textile and leather industries. News, technical articles, products and services. English and Romanian. - A research laboratory of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, working in the science of complex materials with important properties. - The course deals with subjects such as fractal growth, crystal structure and adsorption. Information for prospective and current students. - Materials research in the field of energy technologies, comprising metallurgy, ceramics, solid state physics and materials chemistry. Contains details about the program, staff, user facilities and news. - The Centre promotes good and innovative learning and teaching practices, as informed by research, in the disciplines related to, and using, materials. - Research is focused on the structure of non-crystalline materials, nanocrystalline and high-temperature ceramics, optical characterization, semiconductor thin films and surfaces, integrated detectors, complex fluids and flow processes, and the structure and dynamics of foams.
