BIMat

The Biologically Inspired Materials Institute (BIMat) was established by NASA under the University Research, Engineering and Technology Institute (URETI) program in August 2002. The principal goal for BIMat researchers is to develop bio-nanotechnology materials and structures for aerospace vehicles. The team combines the talents from five of the na... tion's leading research universities and institutions to advance biomolecular and biomimetic materials design, synthesis, and processing. BIMat researchers are from: NASA Langley Research Center (NASA/LaRC) Northwestern University (NU) Princeton University (PU) University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) The BIMat vision is to form a cohesive, virtual institute that takes advantage of extant multidisciplinary research, education, and technology enterprises of each research team while exploiting relevant industrial partners in a focused program to create new knowledge to meet the long-term needs of NASA's Materials Program. This URETI will be among those institutes comprising the National Institutes of Aeronautics established at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC), thus providing NASA LaRC, with a direct window to the institute's research, education, and technology capabilities via state-of-the-art telecommunication resources.Read More