From creating lightweight yet durable prosthetics to designing new types of solar panels and batteries, materials engineers combine their expertise in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering to ...

Materials research generates vast amounts of data, but the information often exists in manufacturer-specific formats and the terminology is inconsistent, making it difficult to aggregate, compare, and ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

A burst of invisible light can do more than illuminate a surface. In a new study, Michigan State University researchers used ...

For many decades, the method to obtain atomic-level descriptions of chemical compounds and materials—be it a drug, a catalyst ...

Your second and third years have distinctive course requirements and electives. Here we can compare four related majors through select second and third year courses. MSE 2110 - Introduction to ...

In this interview, Markus Buehler discusses MIT's Machine Learning for Materials Informatics course, its curriculum, and its impact on the broader materials science community, emphasizing the exciting ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

New York announces Radical AI's autonomous materials science lab in Brooklyn, backed by $2 million in tax credits.

A little bit of asteroid works out to $132 million per ounce — pricy! — but not quite the most expensive material used in science. I’m a professor of astronomy. I use Moon and Mars rocks in my ...

An introductory course focused on the new and existing materials that are crucial for mitigating worldwide anthropogenic CO2 emissions and associated greenhouse gases. Emphasis will be placed on how ...

MATH 220 and 224 or MATH 212, 213 and 214; MATH 230, 234 or equivalent (e.g. 290-2,3 or 291-2,3) CHEM Lecture/lab: 110, 131/141 and 132/142 or 151/161 and 152/162 or 171/181 and 172/182 One course in ...