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TMI's core faculty lead cutting-edge research by running their grants through the institute, fostering collaboration and resource sharing.

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Graduate Program

Our Materials Science and Engineering program is one of the best in the nation, and our graduates go on to be leaders in their fields.

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Research

TMI supports interdisciplinary research at UT Austin, with over 100 faculty focusing on clean energy, nanotechnology, and advanced materials using our state-of-the-art facilities.

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    Fees and Policies

  • UT Users: $32/hour
  • Higher Education/State Agencies: $84/hour
  • Corporate/External Users: $84/hour

To become a new user of this facility, please read the Instrument Reservation Information page. If you are already a user you can make a reservation in FBS.

Texas Materials Seminar Series

The Texas Materials Seminar Series features MSE 397 Seminars, TMI Distinguished Lectureships, and TMI Special Seminars, where leading faculty and professionals from around the world share cutting-edge innovations and advancements in materials engineering with our students.

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News

Professor Arumugam Manthiram received the Faraday Medal Award

Professor Arumugam Manthiram received the Faraday Medal Award from the Society for Advancement of Electrochemical Science and Technology (SAEST), India.

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Koo Research Group Presents at AIAA SciTech 2025 Conference

Three graduate students from the Koo Research Group presented five papers at the AIAA SciTech Conference in Orlando, Florida. Topics included advanced aerospace materials like carbon/UHTR and quartz/UHTR ablatives, microstructural analysis, and photogrammetry methods. The students, along with their advisor Dr. Joseph H. Koo, showcased their research to over 6,000 attendees.

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A New Structure for Single Atom Catalysis

A recent study by Dr. Yuanyue Liu and his team, published in The American Chemical Society (ACS), has revealed a previously overlooked catalytic site in M–N–C materials, which are vital for energy conversion reactions like the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Traditionally, M–N–C catalysts feature pyridinic sites as the primary active sites.

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Dr. Yuebing Zheng Elected Fellow of SPIE

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is proud to announce that Dr. Yuebing Zheng has been elected to the prestigious grade of Fellow of SPIE, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of optics and photonics.

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Advancements in Anode-Free Solid-State Batteries

Dr. David Mitlin and Dr. Donald Siegel, along with their colleagues in the Department of Energy’s MUSIC Energy Frontier Research Center, recently published a perspective article in Nature Materials on "Electro-Chemo-Mechanics of Anode-Free Solid-State Batteries."

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