Crystal with a twist: scientists grow spiraling new material Prof. Jie Yao’s team have created new inorganic crystals made of stacks of atomically thin sheets that unexpectedly spiral like a nanoscale card deck. Their surprising structures, reported in a new study appearing in the Wednesday, June 20 issue of the journal Nature, may yield unique optical, electronic and…

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Berkeley MSE Graduate Ranking Moves up to #3 in 2018 USN&WR Rankings: by Daisy Hernandez April 05, 2019 The 2018 US News and World Reports graduate rankings have been released and UC Berkeley’s Materials Engineering program has moved up a slot to number 3 in the nationally.  The complete rankings and links to more details…

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Berkeley MSE Moves up in USNWR Global Rankings by Daisy Hernandez November 10, 2017 The Berkeley MSE Department has moved up one spot the number 5 in the recently released US News and World Report Global Rankings.  The rankings are based on academic research performance, including bibilometric measures such as publications, citations and reputation.  The…

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Berkeley MSE Undergraduate Ranking Moves up to #2 in 2018 USN&WR Rankings by Daisy Hernandez October 4, 2017 The 2018 US News and World Reports undergraduate rankings have been released and UC Berkeley’s Materials Engineering program has moved up a slot to number 2 in the nationally.  The complete rankings and links to more details…

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Professor Martin and Colleagues Take Big Step Towards Making Graphene Electronics by Materials Science and Engineering January 29, 2015 In a recent report in the journal Nature Communications, a Berkeley MSE team led by Professor Lane Martin, together with colleagues form the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, have found a way…

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by Materials Science and Engineering April 10, 2013 MSE faculty member Professor Tom Devine has been widely quoted recently for his views on the Bay Bridge bolt failures, their origin and how they could have been prevented. In Print: http://coe.berkeley.edu/news-center/berkeley-engineering-in-the-news/metallurgists-say-bay-bridge-bolt-failure-could-have-been-prevented. On Radio: http://www.talk910.com/pages/gil-gross.html?article=11169845 On Video: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=9060800   Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst…

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As reported in Nature today, the research groups of Professor Ceder and Persson collaborated on the creation of an Autonomous Laboratory for the Synthesis of New Inorganic Materials.  Using integration with the Materials Project (materialsproject.org), text-mined synthesis knowledge from over 5Million research papers, and data from Google Deepmind, the A-lab demonstrated the autonomous synthesis of…

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