Central Michigan University

Advanced Materials Research

The Advanced Materials Research Initiative (AMR) provides support and focus for a growing emphasis on materials research at Central Michigan University, fostering collaborations and research among CMU faculty and with the broader materials community at other universities and in industry. Currently 21 faculty from three departments are involved in AMR activities, which include a seminar series, competitive fellowships for graduate students working on materials-related projects, and teaching release for grant proposal development.

Advanced materials – materials that are created by advanced synthetic techniques or that have advanced functionality – is one part of the vast field of materials science. Our technologically based society depends on materials, from traditional materials familiar to everyone such as steel and ceramics, to newer less-familiar materials developed at the micro- and nano-scale. Advanced materials, in particular, offer an exciting and challenging area of fundamental scientific discovery, exploring the essential rules that govern synthesis and performance of these new structures.

Funded through CMU’s 2010 program, the AMR is anchored within CMU’s College of Science and Technology, providing information and organization among the Departments of Physics and Chemistry with developing linkages to Biology, Geology, Mathematics and the Engineering sciences. Use this site to discover more information on faculty research areas and opportunities for study.