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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(Photo by Elena Zhukova) “Twisted crystals: a new material that could improve opto-electronics: Jie Yao, a 2022 Heising-Simons Faculty Fellow, has made it his mission to not only understand the crystals underlying today’s technology, but develop new types of crystal structures that interact with light and electricity in different and unusual ways.” -The Berkeleyan

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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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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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JOINT MAJORS MSE / BioE MSE / ChemE MSE / EECS MSE / ME MSE / NE MSE/BioE Joint Major The Departments of Bioengineering and Materials Science & Engineering offer a joint major for students who have an interest in the field of biomaterials. The broad-based curriculum includes exposure to fundamental courses in engineering and…

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Congratulations to Professor Robert O. Ritchie on publishing his first book! After 40 years in the Materials Science & Engineering department, Professor Robert O. Ritchie has published his first book, “Introduction to Fracture Mechanics” published by Elsevier.  Read the book details here. Contact Us Department offices are located in 210 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, in…

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Faculty Spotlight: Professor Andrew Minor   Where did you study? I grew up in the bay area and then I went to college at Yale University in Connecticut. Having done my time back east, I was happy to come back west for graduate school at Cal, and have been here ever since. . .  …

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 Subject: Big Give is coming on March 14 – Join me!   Dear alumni, colleagues, and friends of UC Berkeley Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Berkeley’s annual day of giving — Big Give — is happening next week, starting at 9 pm on Wednesday, March 13th and ending at 9 pm on Thursday,…

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