A project to investigate materials with complex architectures has been awarded 3 million processor hours (worth £1.6M or over $3M) on HECToR. The award is the largest under EPSRC’s recent call for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A Johns Hopkins University chemist is leading research groups from five schools that won a $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for materials science work that could lead to ...

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 ...

Assistant Professor Mija Hubler and Melvin E. and Virginia M. Clark Professor Al Weimer are collaborating on linked Department of Energy-funded projects to capture and repurpose carbon products from ...

Explore how to build a DIY electric motor using simple, readily available materials in this detailed tutorial. Watch ...

Learn how to build your own simple DIY air pump using a plastic syringe, a small DC motor, and basic materials you may ...