Katana VentraIP

Materials science

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials. Materials engineering is an engineering field of finding uses for materials in other fields and industries.

The intellectual origins of materials science stem from the Age of Enlightenment, when researchers began to use analytical thinking from chemistry, physics, and engineering to understand ancient, phenomenological observations in metallurgy and mineralogy.[1][2] Materials science still incorporates elements of physics, chemistry, and engineering. As such, the field was long considered by academic institutions as a sub-field of these related fields. Beginning in the 1940s, materials science began to be more widely recognized as a specific and distinct field of science and engineering, and major technical universities around the world created dedicated schools for its study.


Materials scientists emphasize understanding how the history of a material (processing) influences its structure, and thus the material's properties and performance. The understanding of processing-structure-properties relationships is called the materials paradigm. This paradigm is used to advance understanding in a variety of research areas, including nanotechnology, biomaterials, and metallurgy.


Materials science is also an important part of forensic engineering and failure analysis – investigating materials, products, structures or components, which fail or do not function as intended, causing personal injury or damage to property. Such investigations are key to understanding, for example, the causes of various aviation accidents and incidents.

Ceramic engineering

Metallurgy

and engineering

Polymer science

Composite engineering

The main branches of materials science stem from the four main classes of materials: ceramics, metals, polymers and composites.


There are additionally broadly applicable, materials independent, endeavors.


There are also relatively broad focuses across materials on specific phenomena and techniques.

solid-state physics and solid-state chemistry

Condensed matter physics

Nanotechnology

Mineralogy

Supramolecular chemistry

Biomaterials science

American Ceramic Society

ASM International

Association for Iron and Steel Technology

Materials Research Society

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society

Ashby, Michael; Hugh Shercliff; David Cebon (2007). Materials: engineering, science, processing and design (1st ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann.  978-0-7506-8391-3.

ISBN

Askeland, Donald R.; Pradeep P. Phulé (2005). The Science & Engineering of Materials (5th ed.). Thomson-Engineering.  978-0-534-55396-8.

ISBN

Callister, Jr., William D. (2000). Materials Science and Engineering – An Introduction (5th ed.). John Wiley and Sons.  978-0-471-32013-5.

ISBN

(2003). Why Things Break: Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart. Harmony. ISBN 978-1-4000-4760-4.

Eberhart, Mark

Gaskell, David R. (1995). Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials (4th ed.). Taylor and Francis Publishing.  978-1-56032-992-3.

ISBN

González-Viñas, W. & Mancini, H.L. (2004). An Introduction to Materials Science. Princeton University Press.  978-0-691-07097-1.

ISBN

(1984). The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor (eissue ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02380-9.

Gordon, James Edward

Mathews, F.L. & Rawlings, R.D. (1999). Composite Materials: Engineering and Science. Boca Raton: CRC Press.  978-0-8493-0621-1.

ISBN

Lewis, P.R.; Reynolds, K. & Gagg, C. (2003). . Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN 9780849311826.

Forensic Materials Engineering: Case Studies

Wachtman, John B. (1996). Mechanical Properties of Ceramics. New York: Wiley-Interscience, John Wiley & Son's.  978-0-471-13316-2.

ISBN

Walker, P., ed. (1993). Chambers Dictionary of Materials Science and Technology. Chambers Publishing.  978-0-550-13249-9.

ISBN

Mahajan, S. (2015). . MRS Bulletin. 12 (40): 1079–1088. Bibcode:2015MRSBu..40.1079M. doi:10.1557/mrs.2015.276.

"The role of materials science in the evolution of microelectronics"

at The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) – accessed March 2007

Timeline of Materials Science

Burns, G.; Glazer, A.M. (1990). (2nd ed.). Boston: Academic Press, Inc. ISBN 978-0-12-145761-7.

Space Groups for Scientists and Engineers

Cullity, B.D. (1978). Elements of X-Ray Diffraction (2nd ed.). Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.  978-0-534-55396-8.

ISBN

Giacovazzo, C; Monaco HL; Viterbo D; Scordari F; Gilli G; Zanotti G; Catti M (1992). Fundamentals of Crystallography. Oxford: . ISBN 978-0-19-855578-0.

Oxford University Press

Green, D.J.; Hannink, R.; Swain, M.V. (1989). Transformation Toughening of Ceramics. Boca Raton: CRC Press.  978-0-8493-6594-2.

ISBN

Lovesey, S. W. (1984). Theory of Neutron Scattering from Condensed Matter; Volume 1: Neutron Scattering. Oxford: Clarendon Press.  978-0-19-852015-3.

ISBN

Lovesey, S. W. (1984). Theory of Neutron Scattering from Condensed Matter; Volume 2: Condensed Matter. Oxford: Clarendon Press.  978-0-19-852017-7.

ISBN

O'Keeffe, M.; Hyde, B.G. (1996). "Crystal Structures; I. Patterns and Symmetry". . 212 (12). Washington, DC: Mineralogical Society of America, Monograph Series: 899. Bibcode:1997ZK....212..899K. doi:10.1524/zkri.1997.212.12.899. ISBN 978-0-939950-40-9.

Zeitschrift für Kristallographie – Crystalline Materials

Squires, G.L. (1996). Introduction to the Theory of Thermal Neutron Scattering (2nd ed.). Mineola, New York: Dover Publications Inc.  978-0-486-69447-4.

ISBN

Young, R.A., ed. (1993). The Rietveld Method. Oxford: Oxford University Press & International Union of Crystallography.  978-0-19-855577-3.

ISBN

MS&T conference organized by the main materials societies

MIT OpenCourseWare for MSE

at Curlie

Materials science