Profs Taylor, Jayan, Kowalewski, Bockstaller and Tristram-Nagle awarded Major Research Instrumentation Program award from the NSF!

The development of cutting-edge nanostructured materials for applications like smart surfaces, batteries, and synthetic tissues requires highly interdisciplinary teams as well as tools that can characterize materials across multiple length scales. Advanced functional materials in particular have the potential to drive advances in sensing, energy storage and robotics, and these materials by definition have nanostructural features from Angstroms to hundreds of nanometers in size. Further, behavior of these materials must be measured in situ for accurate characterization of their structural properties during use.

In this MRI application, our CMU team proposed the acquisition of the Xenocs Xeuss 3.0 x-ray scattering system to enable high-throughput studies at a variety of length scales. We are now pleased to announce that our Major Research Instrumentation proposal has been funded by the NSF.

Many thanks to the CMMI division of the NSF for this tremendous support! Details on the award available here .