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The Laboratory for Research on the
Structure of Matter,
the LRSM, is the center for materials research at the University of Pennsylvania. It was established in 1960 as
one of the first Materials Research Laboratories to be funded by the
forerunner of DARPA. In 1972 funding was taken over by the National Science
Foundation's Division of Materials Research, NSF-DMR under the aegis of the
MRL program. In 1996, the core of the materials research program at the LRSM
was supported as a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, MRSEC, funded by an NSF-DMR. The
current MRSEC grant (DMR05-20020) supports the interdisciplinary research of
affiliated faculty from three Schools: Arts & Sciences (Chemistry,
Physics & Astronomy), Engineering & Applied Sciences (Bioengineering,
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Electrical & Systems
Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
& Applied Mechanics) and Medicine (Physiology, Biochemistry &
Biophysics). These faculty members are organized into five Interdisciplinary
Research Groups, IRGs, each having 6-8 members, which cover the following
areas of research:
- Filamentous
Networks & Structured Gels
- Functional
Cylindrical Assemblies
- Designed
Programmable Membranes
- DeNovo
Synthetic Protein Modules for Light-Capture & Catalysis
- Oxide-Based
Hierarchical Interfacial material
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