MERCII Member Centers

Name	Full Name	Description	Contact
	ASPIRE	Center for Advancing Sustainability through Powered Infrastructure for Roadway Electrification	ASPIRE seeks to create sustainable, equitable, and widespread electrification of vehicles by creating low-cost, ubiquitous, and worry-free charging.
	ASSIST	Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies	ASSIST harnesses nanotechnology to improve global health by enabling correlation between personal health and personal environment and by empowering patients and doctors to manage wellness and improve quality of life.
	ATP-Bio	Center for Advanced Technologies for Preservation of Biological Systems	ATP-Bio aims to stop biological time by designing methods to cryogenically cool, hold, and re-warm living materials without harm, extending our ability to bank and transport them.
	CASFER	Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainable and Distributed Fertilizer Production	The CASFER ERC will enable resilient and sustainable food production by developing next-generation, modular, distributed, and efficient technology for capturing, recycling, and producing decarbonized nitrogen-based fertilizers.
	CBBG	Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics	CBBG employs or mimics natural biological processes and materials to engineer the ground in ways that reduce infrastructure development lifecycle costs and impacts while mitigating natural hazards and environmental degradation.
	CELL-MET	Center for Cellular Metamaterials	CELL-MET aims to transform cardiovascular care by combining breakthroughs in nanotechnology and manufacturing with tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, while also developing areas of expertise in education, diversity, administration, and outreach.
	CISTAR	Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources	CISTAR's vision is to create a transformative engineered system to convert light hydrocarbons from shale resources to chemicals and transportation fuels in smaller, modular, local, and highly networked processing plants.
	CMaT	Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies	CMaT's vision is to enable robust, scalable, low-cost biomanufacturing of high-quality therapeutic cells to bring affordable, curative therapies against incurable chronic diseases to everyone.
No logo provided	CNCE	Center for Negative Carbon Emissions	Advancing carbon management technologies that can capture carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from ambient air in an outdoor operating environment. The center's long-term goal is to become the intellectual leader in this new field of sustainable energy infrastructure design, which is critical to achieving a carbon negative energy economy.
	CQN	Center for Quantum Networks	CQN aims to create the first quantum network with fully error-corrected quantum connectivity over local and global scales by developing key quantum technologies and new functional building blocks that connect quantum processors.
	CS3	Engineering Research Center for Smart Streetscapes	The CS3 will forge livable, safe, and inclusive communities through real-time, hyperlocal technologies for streets and their surroundings.
	DEMO	MERCII Demo ERC	This ERC is for MERCII Demonstrations
	HAMMER	Engineering Research Center for Hybrid Autonomous Manufacturing Moving from Evolution to Revolution	The HAMMER ERC will accelerate the development and deployment of intelligent, autonomous manufacturing systems, enabling mass customization in local production facilities.
	IoT4Ag	Center for the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture	IoT4Ag seeks to ensure food, energy, and water security with new systems to increase crop production while minimizing energy and water use and environmental impacts of agricultural practices.
	MERCII	Multi ERC Instrument Inventory	The MERCII team manages the MERCII platform.
	NASCENT	Center for Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Energy Technologies	NASCENT is creating high throughput, reliable, and versatile nanomanufacturing systems that will revolutionize future-generation mobile computing and energy devices.
	NEWT	Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems	NEWT develops high-performance and easy-to-deploy water treatment systems that will broaden access to clean drinking water from a variety of unconventional sources and enable industrial wastewater reuse at off-grid locations.
	PATHS-UP	Center for Precise Advanced Technologies and Health Systems for Underserved Populations	PATHS-UP is changing the paradigm for the health of underserved populations by developing revolutionary, cost-effective technologies and systems at the point-of-care.
	POETS	Center for Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems	POETS is improving the electric power density available in tightly constrained mobile environments by integrating novel 3-D cooling circuitry, power converters, and algorithms for smart power management.
	PreMiEr	Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering	The PreMiEr ERC will create microbiome technologies that address challenges at the interface of human health and the built environment by preventing colonization by infectious agents and promoting the proliferation of beneficial microorganisms.
	SenSIP	Sensor, Signal and Information Processing Center	The mission of the Sensor Signal and Information Processing (SenSIP) Center is to develop signal and information processing foundations for next-generation integrated multidisciplinary sensing applications.
	SPV Lab	Sonoran Photovoltaics Laboratory	Energizing the STEM Pipeline through Citizen Science
	STEPS	Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability	The STEPS vision is to facilitate a 25% reduction in human dependence on mined phosphates and a 25% reduction in losses of point and non-point sources of phosphorus to soils and water resources within 25 years, leading to enhanced resilience of food systems and reduced environmental damage.
	TANMS	Center for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems	TANMS works to engineer a revolution in miniature electromagnetic electronics through development of a new class of nanoscale multiferroic materials.