News

We welcome Christian O'Brien as our latest MATFab staff member!

Monday, June 30, 2025

Check out our new MATFab annual report to see what we have been up to this year.

Monday, June 30, 2025
https://matfab.research.uiowa.edu/sites/matfab.research.uiowa.edu/files/2025-06/MATFab%20Annual%20Report%202025_0.pdf

The MATFab facility held its first annual Materials Frontiers Research Symposium in the IATL building at the University of Iowa campus.

Friday, April 18, 2025

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 MATFab Seed Grant Award

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Announcing the MATFab Seed Grant program!

Wednesday, November 20, 2024
https://research.uiowa.edu/matfab-seed-grant-program

We are planning a MATFab Symposium for the spring semester (April 18, 2025). Save the date! More details to come in January.

Monday, September 16, 2024

We will be holding our Fall 2024 MATFab facility users meeting Monday, September 16 from 4-5 p.m. This will be both in person in IATL 104 or via zoom link.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Congrats to Professor Casey DeRoo's new award from NASA. A portion of these funds will be used to purchase new equipment for the MATFab Facility!

Friday, August 23, 2024
https://physics.uiowa.edu/news/2024/08/iowa-lands-15-million-award-build-advanced-space-equipment

We welcome Christian O'Brien to our research team! Christian is currently an undergraduate in the Department of Physics and will be helping support our fabrication capabilities.

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

We are pleased to announce we have two new instruments in our facility.

Saturday, July 1, 2023

We will be holding our Spring 2023 MATFab user meeting on May 10, 2023 from 4-5 p.m. in IATL 104. A zoom link can also be provided for those who cannot make it in person.

Thursday, April 13, 2023

We are excited to welcome Schaffer Finney as a full-time MATFab staff member! He will be managing the fabrication laboratories and supporting new efforts in machining.

Monday, January 9, 2023

Congrats to our undergraduate interns, Maria and Schaffer, for their upcoming graduation!

Friday, December 16, 2022

We are excited to welcome Dr. Linhan (Leo) Li to the MATFab team! He is bringing a significant amount of ICP-MS experience to our team.

Monday, December 12, 2022

Dr. Michael Sinnwell is joining our team as a part-time Research Specialist. He will be managing the BET and Elemental Analysis instruments.

Monday, July 18, 2022

We are excited to have Dr. Daniel Unruh here on campus!

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

We are hiring! We are looking for someone with experience in fabrication. Job posting can be found here.

Tuesday, May 17, 2022
https://research.uiowa.edu/work-us

We held the Spring 2022 Users meeting from 4-5 p.m. on May 11 in 104 IATL and via zoom. The meeting was recorded and you can view the video here.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022
https://uicapture.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=5bff24e1-fbbc-4b90-8aaf-ae92016f7711

So excited to announce that Dr. Daniel Unruh will be joining us as a staff member in the MATFab facility.

Friday, April 15, 2022

Professor Tori Forbes has joined the MATFab team as the new facility director. She is excited to work with all the users of the facility to enhance research efforts at the University of Iowa.

Monday, March 14, 2022

Events

MATFab Materials Frontier Symposium promotional image

MATFab Materials Frontier Symposium

Friday, April 24, 2026 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Chemistry Building
The MATFab Materials Frontier Symposium is an event to highlight materials research within the University of Iowa Core Facilities.
MATFab Materials Frontier Symposium promotional image

MATFab Materials Frontier Symposium

Friday, April 24, 2026 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Chemistry Building
Please join us for a symposium to highlight advances and application in material science at the University of Iowa.