Metamaterials like sneaker midsoles and car bumpers are engineered to carry load or resist impact, but designing these products to perform as expected can be an error-prone process. Now, Berkeley MSE professor Rayne Zheng and their team have developed an innovative design method that leverages artificial intelligence and additive manufacturing to ensure that optimum functionality and target behaviors are…

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Prof. Junqiao Wu was interviewed on ABC7 News about “smart roof” coatings that can help regulate household temperatures without consuming natural gas or electricity. Prof. Wu’s work, highlighted here, is based on work published in the journal Science where they used the metal-insulator transition in tungsten-doped vanadium dioxide to create window glass and a rooftop coatings that respond by turning off their…

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Fung Feature: Gwenlyn Angel Cabiltes, MEng ’21 (MSE) ⭐️  Fung Feature: Gwenlyn Angel Cabiltes, MEng ’21 (MSE) ⭐️ “On the impact she wishes to have on the world and her passion for teaching.” Check out full interview here. Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in the Northeast corner of…

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New technology could wean the battery world off cobalt by Brett Israel April 11, 2018 Lithium batteries use more than 50 percent of all cobalt produced globally. This is because lithium ions are stored in cathodes which are layered structures. Cobalt is crucial to maintaining this layered structure.  Now, a research team led by scientists at UC…

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In a collaboration between the groups of MSE’s own Professors Robert Ritchie, Andrew Minor, and Mark Asta, together with colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers have produced the toughest material in the world. The work, published in Science, is focused on an alloy of chromium, cobalt, and nickel and shows a pathway to producing a material that is…

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Accelerating Materials Discovery With World’s Largest Database of Elastic Properties by Materials Science and Engineering May 8, 2015 A team of Berkeley Lab scientists, including MSE department’s Chair Mark Asta and Ph.D. candidate Maarten de Jong, have published the world’s largest database of the complete elastic properties of inorganic compounds. The data set is expected…

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Congratulations to Professor Oscar Dubon on his appointment as the Vice Chancellor for Equity & Inclusion! by Eugene Pang January 15, 2019 Materials Science & Engineering Professor Oscar Dubón has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor for Equity & Inclusion at UC Berkeley. He previously served as Associate Dean for Equity & Inclusion and Student Affairs…

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