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 ...

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.

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is recognized throughout the materials community for its outstanding educational and research accomplishments. We help provide students with the ...

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 .

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, ...

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 Engineering is the broad interdisciplinary field that uses the principles of physics, chemistry, biology and engineering to develop better, safer and more sustainable materials.