NSF · US
Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC) - 2026 Cohort
Deadline
Rolling — no fixed date
Award
$18M over 6 years (part of $108M six-center NSF investment)
Announced
July 30, 2026
What this means for your lab
This is a competitive MRSEC renewal shifting UC San Diego's center from bio-materials and polymers toward quantum metamaterials research on hybrid light-matter states. The center's work involves fabricating and characterizing these hybrid quantum states, including thin-film growth, surface and electronic structure analysis, and measurements at low temperature.
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