NSF hosts experts to discuss materials solutions able to address national and global challenges
July 2, 2024
Subject matter experts from across the country met to discuss critical gaps in the existing national autonomous materials innovation infrastructure and how new models and initiatives could address the challenges raised.
On June 10, 2024, the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Division of Materials Research hosted approximately 80 scientists and engineers from nearly fifty different institutions for a workshop titled "Accelerating Materials Solutions to Meet National and Global Challenges” in support of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) strategic plan.
The purpose of this workshop was to identify gaps in the design, development and deployment of vital materials such as metals, ceramics, semiconductors and soft materials such as polymers and biomaterials. Having worked with industry and academia to identify these gaps, representatives of over 15 federal agencies gathered for a second day on June 11 to develop a workshop report that will align with MGI Challenges. This report will be released later this summer and include a community roadmap and call to action.
Institutions represented through participation in the workshop:
Academia
- Boston University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Columbia University
- Fordham University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Morehouse College
- North Carolina State University
- Penn State University
- Texas A&M University
- University at Buffalo
- University of Alabama
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- University of Toronto
- University of Washington
- Virginia Tech
Industry and Other
- BioPACIFIC MIP
- ExxonMobil Low Carbon Solutions
- IBM Research
- Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- Lam Research
- Merck & Co., Inc.
- Rolls-Royce Corporation
- Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
- Shell Global Solutions US inc.
- UL Research Institutes
National Labs
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Sandia National Labs
Federal Agencies
- Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Department of Commerce (DOC)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- US Army DEVCOM - Army Research Lab (ARL)
- US Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC)
- White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (WH OSTP)
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