Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Materials Science

Materials science is a syncretic discipline hybridizing ceramics, metallurgy, chemistry and solid-state physics. It is the primary example of a replacement academic discipline emerging by fusion instead of fission. Thus, breakthroughs in materials science are likely to affect the longer term of technology significantly. Many of the foremost pressing scientific problems humans currently face are thanks to the bounds of obtainable materials and the way they're used Materials scientists emphasize understanding how the history of a material influences its structure, and thus the material's properties and performance. The understanding of processing-structure-properties relationships is called the materials paradigm. This paradigm is used to advance understanding in a variety of research areas, including nanotechnology metallurgy and biomaterials. Materials science is additionally a crucial a part of forensic engineering and failure analysis – investigating materials, products, structures or components which fail or don't function as intended, causing personal injury or damage to property. Such investigations are key to understanding, for example, the causes of various aviation incidents and accidents.