Blossary – Material Engineering

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New materials have been among the greatest achievements of every age and they have been central to the growth, prosperity, security, and quality of life of humans since the beginning of history. It is always new materials that open the door to new technologies, whether they are in civil, chemical, construction, nuclear, aeronautical, agricultural, mechanical, biomedical or electrical engineering.

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Nanomaterials

Nano materials describe materials the single units of which is sized between 1 and 1000 nanometers.These types of materials are used in advanced technology.The nano materials are very sensitive and ...

Nuclear Materials

Nuclear material refers to the metals uranium, plutonium, and thorium in any form.These types of materials are used to gain energy or atomic nuclear weapons.

Metamaterials

A meta material is a metallic or semiconductor substance whose properties depend on its inter-atomic structure rather than on the composition of the atoms themselves. Certain meta materials bend ...

Optical Materials

A material which is transparent to light or to infrared, ultraviolet, or x-ray radiation, such as glass and certain single crystals, polycrystalline materials (chiefly for the infrared), and ...

Magnetic Materials

Magnetic materials are those materials that can be either attracted or repelled when placed in an external magnetic field and can be magnetized themselves. This magnetic field is invisible but is ...

Electrical Materials

Electrical materials are those which some how response to the electrical properties.Electrical materials may referred to metals,conductors,semiconductors,dielectrics,paramagnetic and insulators.

Piezoelectric Materials

Piezoelectric materials are materials that generate electrical voltage in response to applied mechanical stress (direct piezoelectric effect) and that change shape when electrical voltage is applied ...