Materials Science and Engineering

  • Building Stronger Body Armor

    Texas A&M researchers are part of a team that has found that adding silicon to a material used to make body armor can make it more resilient to firearms.

  • Smart Materials Could Open New Research Field

    A vacuum arc melter fabricating NiTiHf HTSMAs, a new smart material with the many potential applications. (Dharmesh Patel/Texas A&M University College of Engineering) By Elizabeth Thomson, Texas A&M University College of Engineering A group of new smart materials discovered by researchers at Texas A&M University and their colleagues has…

  • Researchers Make Advances In Control Of Chameleon-Like Material For Next-Gen Computers

    From left: Erick J. Braham, Dr. Diane Sellers, Dr. Sarbajit Banerjee and Dr. Patrick J. Shamberger. (Texas A&M Materials Science and Engineering) By Elizabeth Thomson, Texas A&M University Researchers from Texas A&M University report significant advances in their understanding and control of a chameleon-like material that could be key to…