• University of California - Santa Barbara / Tresa Pollock: "International Center for Materials Research" (ICMR); http://www.icmr.ucsb.edu/


• University of California System / Daniel Cox: "International Institute on Complex Adaptive Matter" (I2CAM); http://icam-i2cam.org/


• Lehigh University / Himanshu Jain: "New Functionality in Glasses"; http://www.lehigh.edu/imi/


• Northwestern  University / Robert Chang: “International Materials Institute for Solar Energy and Environment” (IMI-SEE);  http://www.imisee.net


• Texas Engineering Experiment Station / Dimitris C. Lagoudas: "International Institute for Multifunctional Materials for Energy Conversion" (IIMEC) ; http://iimec.tamu.edu