The
Center for the Science and Engineering of
Materials (CSEM),
established in September of 2000, addresses both research and
educational aspects of polymeric, structural, photonic, and ferroelectric
materials that will be necessary to solve critical societal needs
of the twenty-first century. The Center pioneers a number of
exotic and futuristic materials and applications such as liquid
metals, responsive gels, and tiny medical sensors.
The Caltech
Center for Sustainable Energy Research (CCSER) has
as its ambitious goal to transform the industrialized
world from one powered by fossil fuels to one
that is powered by sunlight. The vast resource
potential of solar energy—more energy from sunlight
strikes the Earth in one hour than all of the
fossil energy consumed on the planet in one year—motivates
the Center's work on the science and engineering
innovations needed to harvest the enormous potential
of solar energy.
Center
for Ferroelectric Engineering at Caltech
Caltech has been awarded a Multi-disciplinary University Research
Initiative on "Multiscale modeling and process optimization
for engineered microstructural complexity". Focus is on
the use of appropriate theory and targeted experimentation as
a tool for development of complex materials and materials systems.
Materials and Process Simulation
Center
The Materials and Molecular Simulation Center (MSC) was established
in July 1990 as part of the Beckman Institute (BI) at Caltech
with two major goals: Focus theory research on the key bottlenecks
obstructing applications to the most important materials science,
biotechnology, chemical, and nanotechnology problems. Facilitate
the technology transfer of advances in atomistic simulations
of materials and molecules from university research laboratories
to industrial practice.
Accelerated
Strategic Computing Initiative
The Center for Simulating Dynamic Response of Materials is
constructing a virtual shock physics facility in which the
full three-dimensional response of a variety of target materials
can be computed for a wide range of compressive, tensional,
and shear loadings including those loadings produced by detonation
of energetic materials.
Power, Environmental, and Energy Research Center (PEER)
The Power, Environmental, and Energy, Research Center
(located off-campus) conducts fundamental research in the science
and engineering underlying energy and environmental technologies,
and it trains new scientists and engineers to provide the multidisciplinary
knowledge needed to solve these problems.
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