Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge
Encyclopedia
The Department of Materials Science
and Metallurgy
is a large research and teaching division of the University of Cambridge
. It is located in an Arup building (among others) at the New Museums site
in the city of Cambridge
.
Materials science
Materials science is an interdisciplinary field applying the properties of matter to various areas of science and engineering. This scientific field investigates the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and their macroscopic properties. It incorporates...
and Metallurgy
Metallurgy
Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys. It is also the technology of metals: the way in which science is applied to their practical use...
is a large research and teaching division of the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
. It is located in an Arup building (among others) at the New Museums site
New Museums Site
The New Museums Site is a major site of the University of Cambridge, located in the centre of the city, on Pembroke Street and Free School Lane, sandwiched between Corpus Christi College, Pembroke College and the Lion Yard. Its postcode is CB2 3QH...
in the city of Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
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Research Areas
- Biomaterials
- Pharmaceutical materials science
- Materials for spin electronics
- Wide band-gap semiconductors
- Composites and coatings
- Materials electrochemistry
- Macromolecular materials
- Microstructural control
- Applied superconductivity
- High temperature alloys
- Advanced Transmission electron microscopy
- Materials Modelling
- Advanced techniques for film and nanostructure growth
- Phase transformations and complex properties
- Steels
Research Groups
- Applied Superconductivity
- Atomistic Simulation Group
- Ceramics and Inorganic Materials Group
- Composites & Coatings Group
- Corrosion and Electrochemistry Group
- Device Materials Group
- Electron Microscopy Group
- Functional Inorganic and Hybrid Materials Group
- The Gordon Laboratory
- Gallium Nitride Group
- High Temperature Stability of Materials Group
- Inorganic Microstructures Group
- Joining Group
- Macromolecular Materials Laboratory
- Materials Chemistry Group
- Medical Materials, Cambridge Centre for
- Microstructural Kinetics Group
- The Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Science
- Phase Transformations and Complex Properties Group
- Rolls-Royce UTP in Advanced Materials
- SKF University Technology Centre on Steels
Notable faculty
- Sir Alan CottrellAlan CottrellSir Alan Howard Cottrell, FRS is a British metallurgist and physicist. He received his BSc degree from the University of Birmingham in 1939 and a PhD for research on welding in 1942. He joined the staff as a lecturer at Birmingham, being made professor in 1949, and transforming the teaching of...
- Robert W. CahnRobert W. CahnRobert Wolfgang Cahn FRS was a British metallurgist whose contributions to physical metallurgy centred on the properties of dislocations. Cahn developed a successful model for the nucleation of recrystallization, which underpinned research into industrial processes involving high-temperature...
- Anthony CheethamAnthony CheethamAnthony Kevin Cheetham is a British materials scientist.He was accepted into St Catherine's College, Oxford in 1965 to study chemistry, and graduated with a first class BA in 1969. He started his doctorate at Wadham College, Oxford in the same year, preparing a dissertation on 'The Structures of...
- Sir Robert HoneycombeRobert HoneycombeSir Robert William Kerr Honeycombe, FREng, FRS, was a former Goldsmiths' Professor of Metallurgy and Professor Emeritus of the University of Cambridge. He was an Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge....
- H.K.D.H Bhadeshia