Princeton Engineering researchers are combining their expertise in chemical engineering, materials and computation to design crystalline materials that can be used to mitigate pollution or make ...

Think of just about any major challenge we will have to face over the next decade and materials are at the center of it. To build a new clean energy future, we need more efficient solar panels, wind ...

New technology often calls for new materials – and with supercomputers and simulations, researchers don’t have to wade through inefficient guesswork to invent them from scratch. The Materials Project, ...

The electric cars, manned spacecraft and must-have devices of tomorrow all will be built with discoveries made today in materials science. But to find the alloys, nanomaterials and polymers that will ...

At Northwestern University, our first-of-its-kind materials science department collaborates extensively with our leading mechanical engineering department, resulting in a strong history of ...

Materials scientists and engineers develop, test, and improve materials such as metals, ceramics, plastics, and composites for high-technology applications and needs. Northwestern’s Materials Science ...