Materials Matter
Materials engineers create new materials and improve existing materials. Everything is limited by the materials that are used to produce it. Materials engineers understand the relationship between the properties of a material and its internal structure — from the macro level down to the atomic level. The better the materials, the better the end result — it’s as simple as that.
Featured Stories
Excellence Award goes to ISU Material Advantage Chapter
The Iowa State University Material Advantage (MA) Chapter won a Chapter of Excellence Award from the international student program at the 2022 annual Materials Science and Technology Conference held in Pittsburgh last October.
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REFORM plays to the tune of sustainability
In the Recyclables Evolved from Offscouring Remade to Music (REFORM) project, students are working together to reduce plastic waste at Iowa State by gathering plastic materials and transforming them into durable plastic musical instruments.
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Innovation at Work: Nearly four decades of study – all for better batteries
Steve Martin and his research students are working to invent better materials for batteries so that we all have more powerful, longer-lasting, safer and quicker-to-recharge batteries for our phones, vehicles and other applications.
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NASA selects MSE professor to test materials for future missions
NASA has selected five different ground-based proposals to investigate important problems using existing data from the Physical Sciences Informatics System and Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) assistant professor Sid Pathak’s proposal was one of those chosen.
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Bridging the gaps for graduate students
Shan Jiang, associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) is working to fill in the gaps that graduate students have after they leave school and enter academic or industry professions.
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