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Center for Advanced Ceramics Technology (CACT)
Glass and ceramics are far more pervasive throughout industry and consumer products than most of us realize. Between residential, automotive, and aerospace uses, to cookware and electronics, you’re pretty much never more than a few feet from glass and ceramics.
The CACT at Alfred University specializes in applied and technical research that solves real-world problems to support scalable solutions for commercializing cutting edge advancements utilizing these critical materials.
Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP)
Clarkson University’s Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP) supports companies in exploiting state-of-the-art, tailor-designed materials and processes to improve their products, solve manufacturing challenges, increase yield, lower costs and foster innovation.
CAMP’s research combines applied science with innovation and engineering to transfer unique solutions from the lab into practical applications.
Center for Materials Research
The Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) supports interdisciplinary materials research and development at Cornell, hosting more than 100 faculty members from four colleges, who work on a variety of projects.
The center currently supports three Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs): Atomic Membranes; Controlling Complex Electronic Materials; and Mechanisms, Materials, and Devices for Spin Manipulation.
Through several seed grants, the CCMR also supports high-risk research, such as work on 2D quantum dot solids and the formation of hybrid organic/inorganic materials. Much of the research takes place at CCMR’s Shared Facilities, which includes a main prep lab and several microscopes located at Duffield Hall, as well as other labs in Bard, Clark, Snee, and Olin Halls. The facilities offer world-class materials analysis and processing equipment and are overseen by a staff of experts.
CHIPS at Rensselaer
RPI researchers and their partners in government and industry take advantage of a 5,900-square-foot, class 100 Microscale and Nanoscale Clean Room, which supports a broad range of processing, measurement, and fabrication tools enabling them to create new structures, devices, and systems at the micro- and nanoscale. The Nanoscale Characterization Core (NCC) provides a powerful suite of imaging, spectrometry, and diffraction instruments to interrogate structure, chemistry, and other properties from the atomic- to microscale.
They also utilize the Artificial Intelligence Multiprocessing Optimized System, or AiMOS, an eight petaflop IBM POWER9-equipped supercomputer configured to enable users to explore new AI applications. A collaboration between IBM, Empire State Development, and NY CREATES, AiMOS is the most powerful supercomputer housed at a private university.
The Center of Excellence in Advanced and Sustainable Manufacturing (COE-ASM)
The Center of Excellence in Advanced and Sustainable Manufacturing (COE-ASM) deploys a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists to tackle opportunities across a range of industries, products, and technology areas.
The COE-ASM provides companies access to several technological assets, including CFD and FEA modeling, life-cycle assessments, failure mode analysis, DF-X, and commercialization assistance.
To support a greener future, the COE-ASM has made significant innovations in reducing product end-of-life burdens, such as methods to remanufacture and reuse worn components.
Additive Manufacturing and Multifunctional Printing (AMPrint) Center
RIT’s Additive Manufacturing and Multifunctional Printing (AMPrint) Center was among the first research centers in the world to specifically focus on Multifunctional 3D Printing. AMPrint is currently synthesizing new functional materials optimized for 3D printing, developing multi-material 3D printing technologies that can print polymeric, metallic, and even ceramic materials within the same part, and developing novel applications that take advantage of these new multi-functional 3D printing capabilities.
The AMPrint center has greatly expanded the technological limits of additive manufacturing (AM) through development of new materials, tailoring existing materials not previously suitable for AM, and refining AM processes to handle both. As a result, AMPrint provides industry with capabilities not available elsewhere, including the first ever liquid metal droplet jetting process, and unique carbon fiber composite processes.
S3IP Center of Excellence
S3IP brings together experts to address pressing real-world problems in the integration and manufacturing of electronics. We focus on topics related to electronics packaging, flexible electronics, energy-efficient data centers and energy harvesting and storage.
Our Center of Excellence provides industry and start-ups access to otherwise cost-prohibitive capabilities through several unique laboratories.
Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation Alliance (SMIA)
The REMADE Institute is a division of the Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation Alliance (SMIA), a Delaware non-stock corporation with an independent board of directors.
Their focus is on driving down the cost of technologies needed to reuse, recycle and remanufacture materials such as metals, fibers, polymers and electronic waste and aims to achieve a 50 percent improvement in overall energy efficiency by 2027. These efficiency measures could save billions in energy costs and improve U.S. economic competitiveness through innovative new manufacturing techniques, small business opportunities, and offer new training and jobs for American workers.
The Department of Materials Design and Innovation (MDI)
The Department of Materials Design and Innovation (MDI) is an interdisciplinary department that aims to improve knowledge discovery in materials science by harnessing the tools of information and data science.
We are addressing society’s need for significant acceleration of design and discovery of new materials, emergent properties and processing strategies that impact a broad range of technological applications including advanced manufacturing and biosciences/technology in a socially responsible manner.
the Albany NanoTech Complex
NY CREATES is the owner and operator of the nation’s
largest and most advanced non-profit semiconductor R&D facility— the Albany NanoTech Complex. Albany NanoTech is a state-of-the-art campus that brings together industry leaders, academia and international partners to develop next-generation chips and chip fabrication processes. This facility has been a hub for major advancements and breakthroughs in chip technology for more than two decades.
NY CREATES aims to further accelerate the growth of high-value, high-technology companies, by attracting entrepreneurs to New York State, and supporting them through ideation, incubation and investment phases. NY CREATES continues the long-standing push to provide an invigorating environment for high technology industries – which in the past twenty-plus years has seen the establishment of IBM Research’s CMOS technology development facility, Tokyo Electron Ltd’s Technology Center America at Albany, Applied Materials META Center, GlobalFoundries’ flagship fab at Malta, NY, Danfoss’s power electronics packaging facility at Marcy, NY, and Wolfspeed’s announcement it is expanding in NY, among others.
Since its inception, Capital Investment at the Albany NanoTech Campus has exceeded more than $15,000,000,000. The current operating budget for NY CREATES is approximately $300,000,000/year and growing.
State University of New York
COLLEGE OF NANOTECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE, AND ENGINEERING
We inspire and educate a new generation of innovators as they prepare for exciting careers in environmental sustainability, artificial intelligence, computing, nanotechnology, engineering sciences, and the semiconductor industry. Our students learn and grow in a comprehensive R1 research university setting among a diverse community of scholars committed to engineering and research excellence. We invite you to explore our programs, speak to our faculty, and embrace your opportunity to unleash greatness with us!