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Accelerating Advanced Materials Discovery and Manufacturing
Purdue University has received $19 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to create a cloud-based laboratory platform for advanced materials discovery and manufacturing. The platform, called ICoN-PCL, will provide researchers with remote access to physical labs, simulations, and AI tools, and will support work in semiconductors, aerospace, and energy systems. The initiative aims to accelerate the movement of newly discovered materials from the laboratory to commercial and industrial technologies, and will be led by researchers at Purdue’s Birck Nanotechnology Center and Manufacturing and Materials Research Laboratories. This story was first reported by Lafayette Journal & Courier.