Projects Supported by AMC
The Advanced Materials Center provides funding to support research in Materials Science on the UMD campus.
Current projects
- Assistant Professor Mary Christensen in Civil Engineering - “Ground Glass as a Pozzolan and Mitigation Tool for Alkali Silica Reactions in Concrete” ($26,000)
- Assistant Professor Zihua Xu in Chemical Engineering and Associate Professor Jing Bai in Electrical Engineering - “Lead-Free Organometal Halide Perovskite Materials for High-efficiency Solar Cells” ($8,000)
- Assistant Professor Kathryn Schreiner in Chemistry & Biochemistry and LLO, Assistant Professor Jessica Sieber in Biology, and Assistant Professor Cody Sheik in Biology and LLO - “Biosynthesis of Highly Branched Isoprenoid Membrane Lipids in Diatoms” ($25,000)