Research Groups and Centers Websites

Contains general information, departments, equipment of the laboratories and currently research topics. [Madrid, Spain]

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 and development in the field of materials, especially high-performance ceramics, polymers and composites as well as on concrete, wood and biocompatible materials.

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).

The applied research arm of the Institute provides information on its work and the capabilities of its laboratories.

National institute for research and development of the Romanian textile and leather industries. News, technical articles, products and services. English and Romanian.

Research and development of smart materials, piezoelectric materials, shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive composites, and health monitoring and microelectromechanical systems.

Graduate education and research in materials science and engineering. Includes overview, research areas, personnel profiles and facilities.

Investigation of non-Newtonian fluids, suspensions, dispersions and mixtures of fluids and bulk materials by rheological analysis and identification tests.

Promote and strengthen technology transfer nationwide. 700 major federal laboratories and centers and their parent departments and agencies are FLC members.

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.

Research programme on magnetic and superconducting materials, oxides, nitrides and carbides. Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge.

The course deals with subjects such as fractal growth, crystal structure and adsorption. Information for prospective and current students.

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.

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.

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 University of Siegen, Germany, works in the interdisciplinary area of building and material chemistry.

The Centre promotes good and innovative learning and teaching practices, as informed by research, in the disciplines related to, and using, materials.

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.

Geotechnical Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma

Solid and fluid mechanics, metal and polymer physics and chemistry.

Presents its main activities, including a list of publications. [Santiago, Chile]

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.

Undertaking research into advanced materials that are being developed for high technology applications.

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.

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.

Research is focused on the mechanics and physics of high rate deformation and fracture. Includes details of activities and people, movies and publications.

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.

Undertaking research into fabrication and materials, synchrotron methods and device physics. Includes people, techniques and publications.

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.