Northeastern University announces deal with speciality materials company Rogers to jointly establish innovation centre.

Northeastern University has revealed plans to establish the Rogers Innovation Centre in collaboration with materials firm Rogers Corporation.

Hosted at the University’s George J Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security, the Massachusetts-based innovation centre will be housed in 4,000 square feet of the 70,000 square foot Institute, and will focus on advanced materials.

Northeastern will add super strong carbon fibres and metamaterials designed for invisibility cloaking to Rogers’ high-frequency printed circuits and electronics.

Melvin Bernstein, senior vice provost for research…