Unmasking Corrosion to Design Better Protective Thin Films for Metals
Researchers' analysis could help slow corrosion, an age-old problem.
The vast majority of the materials people encounter every day have been engineered to have specific properties that make the materials useful or valuable. As materials scientists and engineers, our goal is to understand how the arrangement of the materials' structures on a very fine scale translates into materials with properties that can benefit society. Our department continually strives to expand its core strengths and to work across disciplines to address complex challenges, from more efficient jet engines to new electronic materials that extend the limits of Moore's law. With recent faculty hires, we have reinforced our expertise in corrosion, high-temperature materials, surfaces and interface science, electronic materials, and computational materials science. And we are firmly established in such emerging fields as two-dimensional materials, soft and/or biological materials, and functional thermal material systems.
Researchers' analysis could help slow corrosion, an age-old problem.
Research team develops materials that can withstand the extreme stress and heat of turbine engines.
Prasanna Balachandran is one of 20 rising stars identified by the editors of Computational Materials Science.
Zebarjadi Applied Her Knowledge of Electric Circuits and Materials to Design an All-solid-state Active Cooler.
The Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering addresses a technologically critical field that affects the performance and reliability of most products manufactured in the world today.
Learn moreThe Institute for Nanoscale and Quantum Scientific and Technological Advanced Research (nanoSTAR) supports collaborative research, education and commercialization in the key areas of electronics, biomedicine and energy and the environment through partnerships with academia, industry and national laboratories.
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