Materials of the Universe faculty, staff and students conduct research across a wide variety of Earth, space and materials science topics, such as:
- Materials for space exploration and remote sensing.
- Energy and resources on Earth and in extraterrestrial environments.
- Mineral-organic interactions and evolution.
- Materials under extreme conditions — heat, cold, high pressure, low pressure, etc.
- New materials discovery.
- Materials of the solar system, meteorites, asteroids and exoplanets.
- Energy storage and conversion.
- Nanomaterials and quantum dots.
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FORCE
FORCE (Facility for Open Research in a Compressed Environment) has been funded by the National Science Foundation to establish a national high-pressure user facility at Arizona State University.