Research at the CMI encompasses several thrust areas:

• Nanostructured Materials Synthesis, focusing on:
  • General syntheses of nanoparticles, nanostructured films, and bulk nanocomposites
  • Superb control of sizes, size distributions, morphologies, and designed architectures
  • novel instrumentation for online measurement of nanoparticle size distributions
  • applications in environmental nanotechnology
  • applications in quantum electronics and optoelectronics
  • applications in aerospace structural materials
  
  
• Magnetic materials, focusing on:
  • superior magnetic sensors
  • advanced magnetic storage media
  • enhanced magnetic imaging.
  
  
• Biological and Biomedical Materials, focusing on:
  • Enhancing the biocompatibility of materials
  • Understanding the properties of biological materials
  • Design of nanoparticles for drug delivery
  • Synthesis of bioinspired materials using nanotechnology
  
  
• Materials for Energy Applications, focusing on:
  • Materials for hydrogen storage and sensing
  • Materials for solar energy applications