Materials Research
Channel: U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
Date: 2018-02-22

https://www.arl.army.mil/opencampus/activeresearch/materialsresearch

ARL’s Materials Research Campaign builds on fundamental pillars of materials science, physics, mathematics, computational chemistry, synthetic chemistry, biology, and engineering to conduct research in areas including Advanced Experimental Techniques; Modeling and Simulation; Bridging the Scales—a materials-by-design paradigm; Material Property Characterization to measure materials properties and performance to inform the research community across the scales; and Growth or Synthesis and Processing—a materials-on-demand paradigm.

Key enablers, which are expected to lead to disruptive discoveries yielding new Army capabilities, are emphasized.  Discovery enablers include biological and bio-inspired materials, metamaterials, two-dimensional and nanoscale materials, and multifunctional and hierarchical materials. Recent scientific emphasis areas that promise disruptive capabilities include quantum science to alter time, space, and information processing; the coupling of energy fields to matter to create new materials and selectable system responses with vast performance improvements; and interfacial science research from which many key Army capabilities are enabled.  Recent discoveries in these scientific areas are setting the course of future ARL research.

Materials research areas of specific emphasis include Structural Materials; Electronics; Photonics; Energy and Power; Biotechnology and Bio-Inspired; Lethality and Protection; and Materials Manufacturing Science.