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.

the theory of solid-state transformations in metals, particularly multicomponent steels

as an alternative to the Brinell method to measure the hardness of materials

The rare earth-iron-boron permanent magnets discovered and developed independently by Masato Sagawa and John J. Croat

pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology

British materials engineer

By July 1956 he was the NOL's supervisory physical metallurgist.

received his PhD degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Wales, in 1965

Velcro is a brand of versatile fastening devices, known as hook-and-loop fasteners, hook-and-pile fasteners, or touch fasteners, that allow two surfaces to be repeatedly attached and detached with ease. A trademark of Velcro Companies, the brand name is often used generically to refer to this type of fastener.

A vacuum flask (also known as a Dewar flask, Dewar bottle or thermos) is an insulating storage vessel that slows the speed at which its contents change in temperature.

Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906, September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington.

Melt spinning is a metal forming technique that is typically used to form thin ribbons of metal or alloys with a particular atomic structure.

Gas dynamic cold spraying or cold spraying (CS) is a coating deposition method.

A toothbrush is a special type of brush used to clean the teeth, gums, and tongue.

Paper money, often referred to as a note or a bill (North American English), is a type of negotiable promissory note that is payable to the bearer on demand, making it a form of currency.

The Ulfberht swords are a group of about 170 medieval swords found primarily in Northern Europe, dated to the 9th to 11th centuries, with blades inlaid with the inscription +VLFBERH+T or +VLFBERHT+.

In the European High Middle Ages, the typical sword (sometimes academically categorized as the knightly sword, arming sword, or in full, knightly arming sword) was a straight, double-edged weapon with a single-handed, cruciform (i.e., cross-shaped) hilt and a blade length of about 70 to 80 centimetres (28 to 31 in).

A hauberk or byrnie is a mail shirt.

The Viking Age sword (also Viking sword) or Carolingian sword is the type of sword prevalent in Western and Northern Europe during the Early Middle Ages.

A katana (刀, かたな; lit. 'one-sided blade') is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands.

A scimitar ( or ) is a single-edged sword with a convex curved blade of about 75 to 90 cm (30 to 36 inches) associated with Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African cultures. A European term, scimitar does not refer to one specific sword type but an assortment of different Eastern curved swords.

A claymore (; from Scottish Gaelic: claidheamh-mòr, "great sword") is either the Scottish variant of the late medieval two-handed sword or the Scottish variant of the basket-hilted sword.

A cutlass is a short, broad sabre or slashing sword with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket-shaped guard.

A sabre or (American English) saber ( SAY-bər) is a type of backsword with a curved blade associated with the light cavalry of the early modern and Napoleonic periods.

A rapier () is a type of sword originally used in Spain (known as espada ropera, 'dress sword') and Italy (known as spada da lato a striscia).

Toilet paper (also referred to as toilet/bath/bathroom tissue or toilet roll) is a tissue paper product primarily used to clean the anus and surrounding region of feces (after defecation), and to clean the external genitalia and perineal area of urine (after urination).

Bubble Wrap (originally Air Cap) is a trademarked brand of Sealed Air Corporation that includes numerous cushioning products made from bubble wrap.

A bicycle helmet is a type of helmet designed to attenuate impacts to the head of a cyclist in collisions while minimizing side effects such as interference with peripheral vision.

A seat belt or seatbelt, also known as a safety belt, is a vehicle safety device designed to secure the driver or a passenger of a vehicle against harmful movement that may result during a collision or a sudden stop. A seat belt reduces the likelihood of death or serious injury in a traffic collision by reducing the force of

Cai Lun (Chinese: 蔡伦; courtesy name: Jingzhong (敬仲); c. 50-62-121 CE), formerly romanized as Ts'ai Lun, was a Chinese eunuch court official of the Eastern Han dynasty.

Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909, March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.

Metallurgy is a domain of material science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys.

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.