Current Sponsors
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Massachusetts Manufacturing Emergency Response Team
- Inovenso
- The National Science Foundation (Materials Processing and Manufacturing (MPM) program under the Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Division (CMMI))
- Department of Defense(DOD) (US Army ISN)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Dow – the University Partnership Initiative
- ExxonMobil
- The National Science Foundation (Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF))
- Australian Government Department of Defense Science and Technology
Past sponsors
- Philip Morris International
- Millipore
- Elmarco
- KFUPM (Center for Clean Water and Energy)
- E.I. DuPont de Nemours (DMA)
- The National Science Foundation, through the Division of Chemical and Transport Systems, the Engineering Research Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films (CAEFF), and the Materials Research Center for Materials Science and Engineering at MIT (CMSE)
- National Institutes of Health
- US EPA (Superfund)
- The National Textile Center
- AFOSR (DURINT)
- Microsoft (iCampus Project)
- The Sloan Foundation
- 3M
- Boeing
- AT&T
- Hoechst-Celanese
- Texaco