Based on a strong foundation of interdisciplinarity, radical collaboration, industrial support, and dynamic balance, the research is developed in areas such as nanoscale fabrication, shape memory alloys, DNA nanotechnology, energy, biomaterials, materials characterization, polymeric materials, and materials modeling. World-class equipment resources, for which the Micron School of Materials Science & Engineering recently invested $4 million including many new laboratories and state of the art materials fabrication and characterization equipment create impressive research environment, which will be further improved when the new Micron Center for Materials Research opens its doors. All this empowers the graduate students to solve global challenges of enduring significance through materials innovation.?