Northwestern University Materials Research Science & Engineering Center (NU-MRSEC)

The NU-MRSEC maintains a number of shared facilities which provide faculty, students, and industrial partners with access to state-of-the-art equipment. Large facilities generally have on-site managers and regularly offer short courses on the use of the equipment. Please contact the facility director and/or manager directly for additional information. You can also download the printer-friendly Directory of MRSEC Facilities (PDF 131 kB).

NU-MRSEC is part of the Materials Research Facilities Network (MRFN). The primary goal of the program is to maximize the use of advanced characterization facilities within the greater scientific community. Users are invited to submit short proposals requesting access to the state-of-the-art instrumentation distributed throughout the network. Limited financial support may be available to supplement user fees, such as equipment time and travel costs. Please visit MRFN for comprehensive information.

MRSEC Facilities
Atom Trapping and Nonlinear Optical Facility Facility Director: John B. Ketterson, Phys. & Aston. Facility Manager: Oleksandr Chernyashevskyy
Center for Atom Probe Tomography (NUCAPT) Facility Director: David Seidman, MSE Facility Manager: Dieter Isheim , MSE
Central Laboratory for Materials Mechanical Properties (CLaMMP) Facility Directors:David Dunand, MSE & Katherine Faber, MSE Facility Manager: Mark E. Seniw
Electron Probe Instrumentation Center (EPIC) Facility Director: Vinayak P. Dravid, MSE Facility Managers: Jinsong Wu, Shu-You Li, Ben Myers
High Resolution Electron Microscopy and Surface Structure Facility Facility Director: Laurence D. Marks, MSE
Jerome B. Cohen X-ray Diffraction Facility Facility Director: Michael Bedzyk, MSE Facility Manager: Jerry Carsello Magnet and Low Temperature Facility Facility Director: John B. Ketterson, Phys. & Astron. Facility Technician: Oleksandr Chernyashevskyy
Materials Processing & Microfabrication Facility - Cleanroom Facility Director: Bruce Wessels, MSE Facility Manager: Anil Dhote, MSE Optical Microscopy & Metallography Facility Facility Director: Kenneth Shull, MSE Facility Manager: Carla Shute Surface Science Facility Facility Director:Yip-Wah Chung, MSE
MRSEC Laboratories
Advanced Thin Film and Laser Laboratory Laboratory Director: R.P.H. Chang, MSE Biomaterials Laboratory Laboratory Director: Derk Joester, MSE Ceramics Laboratory Laboratory Director: Scott Barnett, MSE Charge Transport Laboratory Laboratory Director: Mark Hersam, MSE Impedance Spectroscopy Laboratory Laboratory Director: Thomas Mason, MSE Polymer Characterization Laboratory Laboratory Director: John Torkelson, Chemical & Biological Engineering

Other Northwestern University Facilities
Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging (CAMI) Facility Director: Thomas Meade, Chemistry Center for Molecular Innovation & Drug Discovery (CMIDD) Facility Co-director: Karl A. Scheidt, Chemistry Facility Co-director: Raymond C. Bergan, Medicine Computation, Modeling & Bioinformatics Center (CMBC) Facility Director: Igal Szleifer, Chemistry Facility Associate Director: Marcelo Carignano, Biomedical Engineering Integrated Molecular Structure Education and Research Center (IMSERC) Laboratory Director: Andrew Ott, Chemistry Keck-II Interdisciplinary Surface Science Center Facility Director:Vinayak P. Dravid, MSE Facility Manager: Xinqi Chen NUANCE - Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization Experimental Center Facility Director:Vinayak P. Dravid, MSE Facility Manager: Mary Pat Doyle, MSE NUFAB Cleanroom Facility Director: Chang Liu, Mechanical Engineering Facility Manager: Nasir Basit, Mechanical Engineering Proteomics Center of Excellence (PCE) Facility Director: Neil Kelleher, Chemistry Facility Associate Director: Paul Thomas Quantitative Bioelemental Imaging Center (QBIC) Facility Director: Thomas V. O'Halloran, Chemistry Synchrotron Research Facility DuPont - Northwestern - Dow Collaborative Access Team Center Co-Directors: Wayne F. Anderson, Michael Bedzyk Northwestern University Office for Research List of Shared and Core Facilities

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) is supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Award Number DMR-1121262. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.
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