Laboratories
USAMI scientists have access to well equipped labs for doing work in cutting-edge areas such as nanomaterials and biomaterials. There are also labs for micro-testing, mechanical/tribological testing, materials characterization (IAC Labs) and micro-/nano-fabrication (PRISM clean room) and workstations for computational simulations/experiments. These facilities are available to USAMI fellows and students along with the resources at more participating universities in the U.S. These include:
- Brown University (Prof. Alan Needleman)
- Columbia University (Prof. Jeff Kysar)
- Harvard University (Prof. John Hutchinson, Prof. Joost Vlassak)
- Howard University (Prof. Jim Mitchell)
- Iowa State University (Prof. Krishna Rajan)
- Lehigh University (Prof. Martin Harmer, Prof. Himanshu Jain, and Prof. Christopher Kiely)
- Ohio State University (Prof. Alfred Soboyejo)
- Rutgers University (Prof. Alberto Cuitino)
- University of Michigan (Prof. Steve Forrest)
- University of Tennessee (Prof. Peter Liaw)
- Yale University (Prof. Ainissa Ramirez)
The facilities available in each of our laboratories can be reviewed by clicking on the laboratories listed on the left-hand side of this page. The resources available at our collaborating institutions can be accessed by clicking on the names of the collaborating Professors.