Affiliated Research Centers at UCSB
- California NanoSystems Institute(link is external)
- Center for Multifunctional Materials and Structures(link is external)
- Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering(link is external)
- Dow Materials Institute(link is external)
- Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies(link is external)
- Institute for Energy Efficiency(link is external)
- Materials Research Laboratory (link is external)
- Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials(link is external)
- NSF BioPACIFIC Materials Innovation Platform(link is external)
- Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center(link is external)
- UC Santa Barbara NSF Quantum Foundry(link is external)
UC Santa Barbara is globally recognized as a leader in Materials research. The Materials Department is home to world-renowned researchers in the following areas.
+ Electronic and Photonic Materials
+ Functional & Quantum Materials
+ Macromolecular & Biomolecular Materials
+ Structural Materials
+ computational materials track
Research Philosophy:
A Highly Collaborative Environment
The Materials Department prides itself on sustaining a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary research environment. Most of the faculty have joint appointments with other departments in the College of Engineering, including Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, or the College of Letters and Science including Chemistry, Physics, and the intercollege Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program. Researchers working in our major areas of research have the opportunity of interacting not only with the Departmental faculty and students, but also with a broader community of faculty and their groups doing materials-related research at UCSB. These interactions are fostered by the numerous materials-related research centers at UCSB.
Additional Resources
- UCSB Shared Instrumentation Directory(link is external)
- UCSB Corporate Affiliates Program(link is external)
- UCSB Tech Transfer: Available Technologies for Licensing(link is external)
- College of Engineering Institutes and Centers(link is external)
- Opportunities for Undergraduate Research
- UCSB Office of Research(link is external)