Materials Science

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Web Resources

About Ceramics: Introduction to Ceramics
Introduction to ceramincs by the American Ceramic Society

Ceramic Fact Sheets
Brief fact sheets describing uses and applications of ceramics in a particular industries (from the American Ceramic Society)

Ceramics WebBook: a Resource for Information about Ceramics
Maintained by the Ceramics Division of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). Provides access to ceramics databases, datasets and resources.

ClayLab.net: Lecture Notes and Research Information
Resource pages for clays and clay minerals supported by the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Worldwide Composites Search Engine
Search engine of composite companies

Materials Interactive
Interactive demonstrations for some of the work of the Centre for Materials Measurement and Technology (National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom)

The Copper Page
Collection of resources pertaining to the copper and brass industries; sponsored by the Copper Development Association

Materials Algorithms Project (MAP)
MAP provides algorithms for use in the modelling of materials.

MatWeb - The Online Materials Information Resource
A free searchable database to identify materials based on property requirements.

World Wide WebLabs
"Internet Web Developers, Publishing and Product Sales for the plastics and chemicals industry..."

SciCentral
A metadirectory of "peer reviewed" resources in all fields of science, developed for the research community but with an added K-12 section. To get to the Materials Science section click on Engineering Sciences, then Specialty Gateway.