The Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) is pleased to announce a 2026 CCMR Facility Mini-Grant Program. Mini-grants of $1,000–$5,000 are available to support exploratory projects using CCMR shared facilities.

New Instrument Alert: Xeus is up and running!The Tescan Amber X Plasma FIB (PFIB) is in Physical Sciences Building (PSB), room B95. The main contact for this instrument is Phil Carubia (pmc228@cornell.edu), and the secondary contact is Malcolm (Mick) Thomas (mt57@cornell.edu). 

The winners of the Cornell Imaging Contest 2026 have been announced!

Cornell researchers have developed a new way to create moiré patterns – atomic-scale structures that can give materials unusual quantum behaviors – without relying on the difficult-to-control twisting and stacking methods traditionally used.