CMP’s research activities focus on the processing, structure, property and performance relationships for all classes of materials including metals, ceramics, and polymers.
Materials of interest include materials used in advance energy systems, including materials found as components in the solar and nuclear industries, and materials used in high performance applications including materials found as components in computers and in the aerospace industries. Additive manufacturing, modeling to support the choice of processing parameters, and materials for nuclear detection are focal points of many of the researchers associated with the CMP.