BioPACIFIC MIP Expands Capabilities with Move to UCSB’s OASIS Facility
a cutting-edge, 105,000-square-foot innovation hub located adjacent to UCSB
BioPACIFIC MIP’s UCSB laboratories are now fully operational in the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering’s OASIS facility, a 105,000-square-foot innovation hub designed to support advanced materials research, prototyping, and scale-up. The move enhances the facility’s ability to serve a broad user base, spanning academic researchers exploring fundamental questions to industry partners advancing application-driven technologies.
OASIS provides expanded laboratory space, modern infrastructure, and dedicated collaboration areas that support more integrated and efficient research workflows. For academic users, this environment enables deeper exploration of structure–property relationships under conditions that more closely reflect real-world processing and performance. For industry users, the facility offers access to capabilities that support scale-up, reproducibility, and early-stage translation, helping bridge the gap between discovery and deployment.
Most UCSB-based instrumentation has been relocated to OASIS, with the exception of SAXS, microrheology, and texture analysis tools, which remain operational at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). The continued partnership between OASIS and CNSI ensures seamless access to complementary characterization and high-throughput capabilities, enabling users to move efficiently between synthesis, analysis, and scale-up.
By situating BioPACIFIC MIP within the OASIS ecosystem, the facility strengthens its role as a national user platform that connects fundamental research with translational pathways. The expanded capabilities and collaborative environment support a wide range of users and projects, from early-stage materials discovery to application-relevant development, fostering innovation across academia, industry, and government.
