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NSF invests $72.5M to design revolutionary materials
![Three fluorescently glowing objects with complex lattice structures on a dark background.](/news/mmg/media/images/20220513FloodResearchGroup0076_f.jpg)
These are the world's brightest-known fluorescent materials. They are called small-molecule, ionic isolation lattices, or SMILES, and were created in a laboratory at Indiana University and supported by NSF's Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future program.
Credit: Amar Flood/Indiana University
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