The Center for Advanced Materials Research is an independent academic unit at Brown University, whose goal is to coordinate and facilitate research and education in materials sciences across the campus, as well as to foster inter-institutional scholarship and study of modern materials by advanced experimental and theoretical tools. The Center is an umbrella organization, presently anchored within several engineering disciplines, and the departments of physics and chemistry at Brown, with developing links to biology and biomedical sciences.

The organizational and administrative purpose of the Center is three-fold:

(1) to catalyze and enable multi-investigator, interdisciplinary faculty research teams to operate effectively within a block research grant style supporting framework,

(2) to administer and foster several central research laboratory facilities, and

(3) to explore the development of interdepartmental educational programs in modern materials science education both on- and off-campus.

Use the above links to find out more about the facilities. You will also find contact information for the persons in charge and, if applicable, a reservation form for the facility you want to use.