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The Caltech MRSEC focuses on five interdisciplinary areas: Ferroelectric Photonic Materials, Soft Biomaterials, Bulk Metallic Glasses, Hydrogen Storage, and Organic Semiconductor/Ferromagnetic Heterostructures. Click on the links below for a description of each project, and links to the scientists involved in each area.

Interdiciplinary Research Groups (IRG)
bullet Ferroelectric Photonic Materials
bullet Patterns, Gradients and Signals in Soft Biomaterials
bullet Mechanics of Amorphous and Nanoscale Metal Composites and Foam Structures

SEED Projects

bullet Methanol Generation and its Efficient Use in Fuel Cells
bullet Spin and Charge Quantum Transport in Organic/Magnetic Heterostructures for Spintronics and Optoelectronics

Previous Interdisciplinary Research Groups
bullet Biological Synthesis & Assembly of Macromolecular Materials
bullet Bulk Metallic Glasses

Previous Seed Projects
bullet Precise Polyolefins Through Single-Site Catalysts
bullet Materials and Microstructures for Thermoelectric Devices
bullet Ferroelectric Thin Films
bullet Mesophotonic Materials