Advanced Materials

Materials enable all technology, from biotech to clean energy to defense. Materials scientists and engineers combine novel synthesis strategies, advanced characterization techniques, computational tools and data science methods to investigate the relationship between a material's structure, the way it is manufactured, and the properties it exhibits.

Using these models, researchers in MEMS and the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering are designing and developing new materials to enable breakthroughs in tissue engineering and disease detection, solar cells and batteries, and aerospace structures and engines.