The gains are probably best illustrated in the field of material science, in which the number of publications has grown from almost none in the early 1980s to the largest in the world now.

Eduardo Kamenetzky, a senior research scientist at Cytec Industries, explains, "The central concept of materials science is relating the microstructure of a material to the properties you want it to .

Since its establishment as the world’s first materials science academic department, Northwestern Engineering has led and defined the frontier of material research, enabling transformative technologies ...

There is a wide range of materials, including glass and clay ceramics, polymers, metals and composite materials ... The properties of the material depend upon the bonding between the atoms ...

Materials science and ... origins of material behavior in order to optimize properties of existing materials through structure modification and processing, design and invent new and better materials, ...