The HetroFoaM Center
University of South Carolina
The HeteroFoaM Center is creating the discipline of "functional materials by design," to enable the knowledge-based creation of multiphase (heterogeneous) materials used to convert, store, and process energy. This discipline will replace the "test / fail / fix" methods now used to design complex material mixtures that are essential for devices such as fuel cells, batteries, capacitors, flow batteries, separation membranes, and many biological systems that capture, store, and convert energy to useable forms, when and where we need it.