Materials science

Materials science

The the study of matter and their applications in various areas of science and engineering.

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external flow

Materials science; Material physics

Refers to flows around immersed bodies. Examples include basic flows such as flows over flat plates, and around cylinders, spheres, and airfoils. Other applied examples include ...

amorphous

Materials science; Material physics

Refers to material that has no crystalline structure. Glass is an example of amorphous material with no long-range ordering of atoms.

spin polarized beams and targets

Materials science; Material physics

Refers to preferential orientation along some chosen direction in space of the intrinsic spins of the beam or target particles (now up to 90% of particles in beams or target can ...

noncrystalline solids

Materials science; Material physics

Refers to solids with no regular structure, but which share some of the properties of regular crystals to some degree. Among these are amorphous semiconductors, glasses, which are ...

excitation

Materials science; Material physics

Refers to the fact that a given system is in a state of higher energy than the energetic ground state. Atomic and molecular systems can be excited by various mechanisms.

enrichment

Materials science; Material physics

Refers to the increase of a nuclear isotope above its natural abundance. In particular, nuclear fuel must be enriched in the isotope of the uranium isotope with 235 nucleons in ...