Research and Laboratories

Active Materials Laboratory - Research and development of smart materials, piezoelectric materials, shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive composites, and health monitoring and microelectromechanical systems.
aml.seas.ucla.edu/

Boston College, EMXRD Facility - 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.
www.physics.bc.edu/EMXRD/index.html

Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research - 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
www.brockhouse.mcmaster.ca/

Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research in Materials (CIMAT) - Presents its main activities, including a list of publications. [Santiago, Chile]
www.cimat.cl/iindex.html

Centre for Advanced & Renewable Materials (CARM) - A consortium of four Research Centres offering leading edge research and development to industry. CARM represents a single point of contact for the BioComposite centre, Opto-electronic Materials Chemistry Laboratory and chemistry department of Bangor University and the Water Soluble Polymers department of the NE Wales institute. [UK]
www.carmtechnology.co.uk/

Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation (CMFI) at Deakin University - Specializing in conducting studies on biomaterials, textiles, metals, modeling, nanotechnology, and polymers. Page includes events and current projects. Located in Australia.
www.deakin.edu.au/scitech/cmfi/

Composite and Intelligent Materials Laboratory - University of Nevada, Reno, researches in the field of advanced intelligent materials, such as magnetorheological fluids and their applications.
web.me.unr.edu/ciml/

Computational Materials Science at McMaster University - Computational Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) Website at McMaster University. Research topics: Phase Field Methods, Phase Field Crystal Method, Phase Transformations, Paper Physics, Steel Scrap Melting, Disordered Materials
cmse.mcmaster.ca

Corrosion and Protection Centre, University of Manchester, UK - 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.
www.materials.manchester.ac.uk/research/groups/corrosionandprotection/

Dannalab - A contract research company offering XRD services with target on high-tech and life science materials is based at the MESA+ Research Institute in Enschede, The Netherlands. Presents details on services and methods.
www.dannalab.com/

Device Materials Group - Research programme on magnetic and superconducting materials, oxides, nitrides and carbides. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge.
www-dmg.msm.cam.ac.uk/

Edison Material Technology Center (EMTEC) - Research, development and commercialization of materials and manufacturing technology.
www.emtec.org/

Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research - Research and development in the field of materials, especially high-performance ceramics, polymers and composites as well as on concrete, wood and biocompatible materials.
www.empa.ch/

Federal Laboratory Consortium - Promote and strengthen technology transfer nationwide. 700 major federal laboratories and centers and their parent departments and agencies are FLC members.
www.federallabs.org/

Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials (IFAM) - Works on sintering and composite materials and powder metallurgical technologies. Information on research fields and testing services.
www.epw.ifam.fhg.de/

Georgia Tech Research Institute - The applied research arm of the Institute provides information on its work and the capabilities of its laboratories.
www.gtri.gatech.edu/

Institute for Building Materials and Materials Chemistry - The University of Siegen, Germany, works in the interdisciplinary area of building and material chemistry.
www.uni-siegen.de/dept/fb08/abteil/bwc/

Institute for Superhard Materials - 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.
www.ism.kiev.ua/

Labor Dr. C. H. Weischer - Biomedical Innovation - 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.
www.biomedicalinnovation.de

Leather Research Institute - The Leather Research Institute (LRI) provides research, education, and services directed at expanding the leather tanning and finished leather products industry in the United States.
www.orgs.ttu.edu/leatherresearchinstitute/

Materials and Electrochemical Research Corporation - 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).
www.mercorp.com/

Materials Science Institute of Madrid - Contains general information, departments, equipment of the laboratories and currently research topics. [Madrid, Spain]
www.icmm.csic.es/

Materials Technology Institute - 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.
www.mti-global.org/

The National Institute for Nanotechnology - NINT’s research focus is on development and applications in the areas Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystals and nanowires, Synthesis of supramolecular-based nanomaterials.
nint-innt.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/research/index_e.html

Ray C. Broce Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory - Geotechnical Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma
brocelab.ou.edu/

Trinity College Dublin, Physics and Chemistry of Advanced Materials - The course deals with subjects such as fractal growth, crystal structurea and adsorption. Information for prospective and current students.
www.tcd.ie/Advanced_Materials/

UK Centre for Materials Education - The Centre promotes good and innovative learning and teaching practices, as informed by research, in the disciplines related to, and using, materials.
www.materials.ac.uk/

U.S. Department of Energy, Division of Materials Sciences - 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.
www.er.doe.gov/production/bes/dms/dmshome.html