How to Use materials science in a Sentence

materials science

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Definition of materials sciencenext
  • He was fined twice, but that didn't stop the limestone thief from making off with the bricks for his materials science tests.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Research like Hu’s and Berglund’s can only add to the wild prospects for the future of materials science.
    — Sid Perkins, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Beyond that, the materials science itself has a long way to go.
    — Katherine Martinko, Treehugger, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But carbon nanotubes, a sort of cousin to graphene, has been quietly staking out its own place in the world of materials science.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Liveris planned to retire by mid-2017, but that was delayed as the company looked for a new head of its materials science business.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2018
  • This month in Pyeongchang, elite teams of physics and materials science experts from all over the world will dazzle us with ostentatious displays of grace and power.
    — Evelyn Lamb, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Santos and co say this should bring huge dividends when it is applied to open problems in materials science.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2024
  • Design innovation and material science in bike design is on a par with sports such as F1, and Grand Tour bikes are built with pure performance in mind.
    — Andrew Diprose, WIRED, 19 July 2019
  • Some of those successes will come in areas other than medicine, such as materials science.
    — Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 27 June 2021
  • Roughly a year later, the executive took on the same role for DowDupont’s materials science business.
    — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Researchers are also starting to use materials science to track down a potential trade in colors.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Part of the issue is one of materials science: there are certain folding patterns in the wing that just can't be done by creating a crease in a single material or using the straight lines of origami.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Dow, a global materials science company, has used those pellets in a previous road test, and the process has been refined and improved over two years of lab work, Buttlar says.
    — Jeff Kart, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
  • This is true in engineering and materials science as well.
    — Tim O'Reilly, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The innovative craft are the result of many advances in electronics and materials science.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Yoel Fink, professor of materials science at MIT and a drafter of the letter, said that a number of faculty members declined to sign it out of concern that taking a stand might damage their careers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2021
  • One of those hoping to be admitted is Lu, a materials science student in Changsha who applied for membership two years ago and is on probation.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The university and the lab are negotiating to construct a $100 million building at PPPL for the cold plasma and material science work.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The field of materials science is always looking to create more and more innovative materials to solve problems like this.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2023
  • Because of the plant’s location and the skills needed for some of the jobs, Intel is likely to draw on graduates from Ohio State University, which is known for its program in materials science and engineering.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The research is having a significant impact on robotics, materials science and a range of other fields.
    — David L. Hu, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • In fact, incredible advances in materials science make the idea finally seem feasible more than 60 years after it was first conceived by engineers in the US Air Force.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The latter will focus on six research areas, including medicine and materials science.
    — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 18 June 2019
  • Though much is still mysterious, in the last few decades materials science techniques and a reanalysis of artifacts excavated in the past have begun to fill in details.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
  • By unveiling the quantum secrets of atoms and light, physics was laying the foundations for chemistry, materials science and engineering.
    — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Paul Coxon, a professor of materials science and metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, wrote in an email.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2019
  • As Caltech professor of materials science William L. Johnson explains, the internal stress causes the glass to yield more easily to any introduced stress on its surface.
    — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The first-year materials science and engineering student was defeated after making it to the semi-finals.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • But Shirley Meng, a materials science professor at the University of Chicago, is very dubious.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • This group has found a way to speed up atomic scale simulations by two orders of magnitude with results that could have a transformational impact on materials science.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2024

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