$25 Million NIST Award Represents Major Milestone for the Materials Genome Initiative

The following press release was published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology on Dec. 3, 2013. It is reproduced in full below.

Officials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today an award of $25 million over five years to a Chicago-based consortium that will build a new center of excellence in advanced materials research. The new Center for Hierarchical Materials Design will support the Administration's Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), and is led by Northwestern University (NU), the University of Chicago, and Argonne National Laboratory with partners QuesTek Innovations, a small business spin-off of NU; ASM International, a well-known professional society of materials scientists; and Fayetteville State University.

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Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology