The Interdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced Materials aspires to be a leading national center, recognized globally, for impactful interdisciplinary research in advanced and disruptive materials which leads to new knowledge creation as well as innovative and practical solutions to the Grand Challenges which contributes substantively to the Kingdom’s economy and help build an ambitious nation to improve human conditions. The center aims to engineer materials with novel properties that enable superior performance in technological applications for energy, oil & gas, defense, water desalination, chemical & petrochemical, metals, construction, automotive, packaging, and other strategic national sectors.
Lightweight vehicles, systems and components joining lightweight dissimilar m...
Anticorrosion in hydrogen, carbon capture, membrane, and next-generation batt...
Self-healing materials; shape memory polymers; Smart windows, plastic packagi...
Corrosion, wear, and hydrogen embrittlement resistance; Electromagnetic &...
Corrosion inhibitors are chemical substances that, when added in small amounts to the environment in which metal would corrode, will redu...
The polymer/composite’s development and testing have been established as an indispensable section of IRC-AM. Our researchers have develop...
The Center has developed also competency in the area of fabricating functional coatings of desired anti-contaminant, scratch-resistance, ...
IRC-AM is equipped with several state-of-the-art equipments for the development, evaluation, and post-deposition treatment of the metalli...
This year IRC-AM jointly organized some workshops with ARAMCO. The ARAMCO workshop was jointly or...
Baker Hughes brought to the knowledge of IRC-AM researchers and affiliates.
Graphene; Chemical vapour deposition; Corrosion resistance; Coatings
Internal corrosion is one of the primary mechanisms resulting in pipeline failures. Statistics sh...
It is generally believed that hydrogen, as a “green” and “emission-free” fuel, will play a critic...
A seminar about reversible adhesives for automotive, and infrastructure applications
