The IMI-SEE is one of 5 International Materials Institute funded under the International Materials Institute  program managed by the NSF Division of Materials Research, Office of Special Programs. The role of an NSF-IMI is to coordinate collaborative research and education among international partners and establish programs and mechanisms that support this goal.  Links to the IMI Partner Institutions can be found below:

• International Institute on Complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM), University of California 
• New Functionality in Glasses, Lehigh University
• International Center for Materials Research (ICMR), University of California, Santa Barbara   
• International Materials Institute for Solar Energy and Environment (IMI-SEE), Northwestern University
  
• International Institute for Multifunctional Materials for Energy Conversion (IIMEC), Texas Engineering Experiment Station