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About the LRSM 
The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, the LRSM, is the center for materials research at the University of Pennsylvania. It was established in 1960 as one of the first Materials Research Laboratories to be funded by DARPA. In 1972 funding was taken over by the National Science Foundation's Division of Materials Research, NSF-DMR. The core of the materials research program at the LRSM is the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, MRSEC, funded by an NSF-DMR grant, which supports the interdisciplinary research of affiliated faculty from the departments of Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physiology, and Biochemistry and Biophysics. These faculty members are organized into four Interdisciplinary Research Groups, IRGs, each having 6-8 members,which cover the following areas of 'soft materials' research: Functional Biomolecular Materials, Carbon Nanotube-Derived Materials, Microscale Soft Materials and Multifunctional Complex Oxides. Smaller groups of faculty are funded through 'seed' programs in which promising new areas of research are explored. The MRSEC at the LRSM also provides state-of-the-art Shared Experimental Facilities, SEFs, to support the work of both the affiliated faculty and the local research community in general. In addition, both educational and industrial outreach programs represent a significant part of the MRSEC program.
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