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Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) is a mid-scale infrastructure program in the Division of Materials Research (DMR) designed to accelerate advances in materials research.

MIPs respond to the increasing complexity of materials research that requires close collaboration of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams and access to cutting edge tools. These tools in a userfacility benefit both a user program and in-house research, which focus on addressing grand challenges of fundamental science and meet national needs.

Conduct research through iterative “closed-loop” efforts among the areas of materials synthesis/processing, materials characterization, and theory/modeling/simulation. In addition, they are expected to engage the emerging field of data science in materials research.

Each MIP is a scientific ecosystem, which includes in-house research scientists, external users and other scientists who, collectively, form a community of practitioners and share tools, codes, samples, data and know-how.

The third MIP competition, in 2025, will accept proposals on alloys, amorphous, and composite materials.

Given that the second MIP competition included an emphasis on biomaterials and polymer research, proposals mainly on these topics will not be considered. Each proposed project must be directed by a team of at least three Senior/Key Personnel with complementary expertise on materials synthesis/processing, characterization, theory/modeling/simulation, etc.

Floor $18M; Ceiling $30M