People tend to think of quantum materials—whose properties arise from quantum mechanical effects—as exotic curiosities. But ...

Within the College of Engineering is the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The department offers bachelor’s, ...

By breaking the rules of atomic order, scientists have created MXenes unlike any seen before. Nine metals now share a single ...

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 ...

A University of Nebraska–Lincoln physicist, Robert Streubel, has received an $849,399 grant from the National Science ...

The fabrics that fill our homes, from natural cotton towels and bedsheets, to clothes produced with synthetic materials, ...

In Science Advances, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign demonstrate how resonant transfer of energy ...

Scientists created this new phase of ice—known as Ice XXI—by supercompressing water to 20,000 times normal pressure in just ...

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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 ...