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New 3D microbatteries stand up to industry standard thin-film counterparts

News | April 6, 2021

Qian Chen named as Racheff Faculty Scholar

News | April 2, 2021

Materials scientists use frontal polymerization to mimic biology and reimagine manufacturing

News | March 30, 2021

Fast-acting, color-changing molecular probe senses when a material is about to fail

News | March 30, 2021

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#2

ranked undergraduate program

2nd largest

materials department in the nation

11,000

sq ft of undergraduate labs with cutting-edge equipment

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Upcoming Events

April

20

MatSE Soft Materials Seminar - “Wetting and adhesion of soft, wet, or swollen surfaces”

4:00 PM

April

22

Hard Materials Seminar - "Understanding nanoscale correlations in complex oxide heterostructures"

4:00 PM

April

26

MatSE Colloquium - Birnbaum Lecture - "The many facets of light activated matter: From energy sustainability to quantum information"

4:00 PM

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