Materials Engineering

Corning Glass researchers Robert D. Maurer, Donald Keck, and Peter Schultz developed fiber-optic wire

Keck, Maurer, and Schultz discovered that they could transmit sound in the form of light along a fiber of silica glass

The optical fiber produced by this team was based on pure silica glass and a unique method of vaporization.

an inventor and materials scientist with Bell Labs

best known for his invention of Starlite, a thermal shielding material

credited with inventing the neoprene wetsuit

inventor of the sintered permanent neodymium magnet (NdFeB)

implemented the process which bears his name for producing steel in a hearth

inventor of an early puddling process used for the refining of pig iron into wrought iron

After several days of research, Conté had the idea of mixing powdered graphite with clay and pressing the material between two half-cylinders of wood.

Visual arts materials

Coatings

Coatings

Ceramic engineering

Ceramic materials

Glass fabrication techniques

Biomaterials

Ceramic glazes

Ceramic glazes

Ceramic glazes

It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is deposited, joined or solidified under computer control, with the material being added together (e.g. plastics, liquids, or powder grains being fused), typically layer by layer.

Heat treating (or heat treatment) is a group of industrial, thermal and metalworking processes used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical properties of a material.

An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats material by means of an electric arc.

In spray forming, an alloy is melted, normally in an induction furnace, and the molten metal is slowly poured through a conical tundish into a small-bore ceramic nozzle.

An injection molding machine (spelled injection moulding machine in British English), or injection press, is a machine for manufacturing plastic products by the injection molding process.

Out of autoclave composite manufacturing is an alternative to the traditional high pressure autoclave (industrial) curing process commonly used by the aerospace manufacturers for manufacturing composite material.

Flexible glass is an alleged lost invention from the time of the reign of Tiberius Caesar.

Unbreakable glass is glass, or glass substitute, which does not display the normal fragility of glass, in general the term is not used to refer to something that is absolutely unbreakable.

A team from Korea University led by Lee Sukbae (이석배) and Kim Ji-Hoon (김지훈) began studying this material as a potential superconductor in 1999, and in July 2023 published preprints claiming that it acted as a room-temperature superconductor at temperatures of up to 400 K (127 °C; 260 °F) at ambient pressure.

There are many different varieties, which are usually categorized by the materials used in the cathode.

Dan Shechtman (Hebrew: דן שכטמן; born January 24, 1941) is an Israeli chemist, the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University.

Alfred Krupp (born Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp; 26 April 1812-14 July 1887) was a German steel manufacturer and inventor, and also the largest arms supplier of his era, which earned him the nickname "The Cannon King".

In metallurgy, cold forming or cold working is any metalworking process in which metal is shaped below its recrystallization temperature, usually at the ambient temperature at or near room temperature.

Primary (single-use or "disposable") batteries are used once and discarded, as the electrode materials are irreversibly changed during discharge; a common example is the alkaline battery used for flashlights and a multitude of portable electronic devices.

Barbed wire is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands.

Adhesive tape is one of many varieties of backing materials coated with an adhesive.

Puddling is the process of converting pig iron to bar (wrought) iron in a coal fired reverberatory furnace.

Continuous casting, also called strand casting, is the process whereby molten metal is solidified into a "semifinished" billet, bloom, or slab for subsequent rolling in the finishing mills.

An induction furnace is an electrical furnace in which the heat is applied by induction heating of metal.

A cupola or cupola furnace is a melting device used in foundries that can be used to melt cast iron, Ni-resist iron and some bronzes.

An open-hearth furnace is any of several kinds of industrial furnace in which excess carbon and other impurities are burnt out of pig iron to produce steel.

In metallurgy, a shape-memory alloy (SMA) is an alloy that can be deformed when cold but returns to its pre-deformed ("remembered") shape when heated.

A cervelliere (cervelière, cervelliera; Latin: cervellerium, cerebrarium, cerebrerium, cerebotarium) is a hemispherical, close-fitting skull cap of steel or iron.

This technique was transmitted to Europe during the Arab conquest of Spain and North Africa and is also believed to have influenced Chinese ceramics through the activities of Muslim traders.

Delftware is one of the types of tin-glazed pottery in which a white glaze is applied and usually decorated with metal oxides.

The insulation properties of neoprene foam depend mainly on bubbles of gas enclosed within the material, which reduce its ability to conduct heat.

A low-tack pressure-sensitive adhesive allows the notes to be easily attached, removed, and even re-posted elsewhere without leaving residue.

The materials of modern pneumatic tires are synthetic rubber, natural rubber, fabric, and wire, along with carbon black and other chemical compounds.

Robert Durrer (1890-1978) was a Swiss engineer who invented the basic oxygen steelmaking process (the Linz-Donawitz process, named after the towns where the technology was commercialized).

In the mid-19th-century, aluminium was so precious that a bar of the metal was exhibited alongside the French Crown Jewels at the Exposition Universelle in Paris 1855.

Alexander Parkes (29 December 1813-29 June 1890) was a metallurgist and inventor from Birmingham, England.

Héroult's second most important contribution is the first commercially successful electric arc furnace (EAF) for steel in 1900.

Sherard Osborn Cowper-Coles (8 October 1866-9 September 1936) was a British metallurgist, and inventor of the sherardising process of galvanization.

Prior to joining Kateeva, he held various positions at Eastman Kodak and was involved in all aspects of OLED technology, from basic materials development to implementation of full-color OLED display manufacturing.

This invention relates to laminated materials and their manufacture.

He is best known as the inventor of the process of sandblasting.

He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2018 for inventing OLED (together with Steven Van Slyke), and was awarded the 2011 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.

Benedicks, he investigated electric steel-smelting, and in 1899 he constructed the first induction furnace, which at once made his name known everywhere.

The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace.

Directional solidification (DS) and progressive solidification are types of solidification within castings.

Benjamin Huntsman (1704-1776) was an English inventor and manufacturer of crucible steel.