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Today we’re going to start thinking about materials that are used in engineering. We’ll look at mechanical properties of materials, stress-strain diagrams, elasticity and toughness, and describe other material properties like hardness,...

In materials science, the substrate is the surface on which a coating is deposited.
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On June 24, 2011, it was announced that NIST Emeritus Senior Fellow Dr. John Cahn had been selected to receive the 2011 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for his fundamental contributions to the study of materials. In this interview,...

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On December 15, 2015, the NFL, Under Armour, GE, & NIST announced the semifinalists for Head Health Challenge III, an open innovation competition to develop advanced materials for use in a wide variety of impact absorbing gear.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) are using random patterns of speckles painted on metal connectors for bridges to better understand how stress and strain could lead...

Looking for a hands-on summer job in a research laboratory? If you are an undergraduate student majoring in physics, materials science, chemistry, applied mathematics, computer science or engineering, the National Institute of Standards...

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