Materials engineering is an applied field that seeks to design materials with some desired physical properties to serve a particular engineering function.
Researchers at Texas A&M University and the Stevens Institute of Technology are laying the groundwork to develop the next generation of biomedical materials used to treat chronic wounds.
In a collaborative study involving Equal Channel Angular Extrusion, a unique severe plastic deformation process, researchers were able to improve the mechanical properties of magnetic alloys without changing their magnetic properties through microstructural refinement.
Engineers from Texas A&M University and Virginia Tech report important new insights into nanoporous gold--a material with growing applications in several areas, including energy storage and biomedical devices--all without stepping into a lab.
