From creating lightweight yet durable prosthetics to designing new types of solar panels and batteries, materials engineers combine their expertise in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering to ...

Thinking big about small materials, researchers in Northwestern Engineering’s Materials Innovation Lab are advancing additive manufacturing at the nanoscale, developing methods to produce sustainable ...

Applied Materials has revealed chip wiring innovations that will help address challenges in the way of energy-efficient computing. The use of new materials in chip wiring will enable two-nanometer ...

Northwestern Engineering’s work in this age of new materials aligns with one of the school’s strategic priorities: Concurrent Materials Design. The school’s strengths in materials science, generative ...

Self-healing materials can autonomously repair damage and make bridges, roads, and aircraft more durable and sustainable.

Pretentious as it may sound, we can say with certainty that bamboo is one of the most promising materials for the future of the construction industry. Neil Thomas, principal engineer at atelier one, ...

Applied Materials introduced three new chipmaking systems that boost the energy-efficient performance of leading-edge logic chips. The technologies supercharge AI compute through atomic-scale ...

Below is a summary assembled by the Research & Innovation Office (RIO). Please see the full solicitation for complete information about the funding opportunity. DMREF seeks to foster the design, ...

Registration is free! Join us Friday, August 15 from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. for this exciting event. Find out more at the Innovation in Materials Symposium homepage. You ...

Industry’s first use of ruthenium in high-volume production enables copper chip wiring to be scaled to the 2nm node and beyond and reduces resistance by as much as 25% New enhanced low-k dielectric ...