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I would say that Callister is pretty common in into courses. Additionally, it’s pretty easy to come by a full pdf online. Here’s an Amazon link to the text we used in my intro course when I started (just in case you’d like to acquire it legally):

Materials Science & Engineering: An Introduction 8e https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E7KPFTK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_FTUhAbS1S8193

The obvious choice is the introductory holy bible of MSE. If you already know the basics of how materials are categorized and behave, that book /u/Tartarus116 posted looks pretty good.

This is called 'materials selection' and Ashby is the main pioneer (e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Materials-Selection-Mechanical-Design-Michael/dp/0750661682 ). Otherwise, I'd say be aware for each alloy or class of alloys

• Cost, and how it varies with alloying additions like Ni in steels
• Stiffness, which doesn't change that much
• Yield strength, and how it varies with temperature and prior heat treatment
• Toughness, and how to improve it with and without sacrificing yield strength
• Corrosion resistance, and the particular kinds (oxidation, chloride, hydrogen) and why these are industrially relevant
• Fatigue and creep
• Formability issues, such as weldability and machinability

For most things, Callister's Materials Science and Engineering is a mainstay. But, here I'll share nine of my favorite books, most of whom can be found for less than ~$15 each on the internet, that launch into specifics and possess overall excellent explanations (in no particular order):

1) Glasses and Glass Ceramics M. H. Lewis (Nothing better on the subject that I've found)

2) Principles of Superconductive Devices and Circuits T. Van Duzer and C. W. Turner (There's not a better book on the subject, it requires some background but it's infinitely valuable)

3) Purification of Laboratory Chemicals W.L.F. Armarego (If you have anything to do with materials chemistry, these techniques are of tremendous value)

4) Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Low-Dimensional Solids Norman March and Mario Tosi (Dense and intense, it's a fantastic tome whose bang per unit buck is off the charts)

5) Physical Chemistry of High Polymers Maurice L. Huggins (Sounds dry, and I'm not too much of a polymers guy, but it's very valuable to understand)

6) Aging and Stabilization of Polymers M. B. Neiman (So you can identify decay mechanisms in common polymer systems and how to stop them)

7) Tool Steels ASM George A. Roberts and Robert A. Cary (A great all-around text on the properties and selection of tool steels)

8) Destruction of Hazardous Chemicals in the Laboratory George Lunn and Eric B. Sansone (Laboratory safety and hazardous waste management are techniques that I find sorely lacking in materials people of all age ranges)

9) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Edward Tufte (All too often, people have data but don't understand the first thing about explaining it, especially in a standalone way; data graphics (viewgraphs) are a necessary tool for the sciences)

I’ve never used Materials Studio, so I don’t have any specific advise for that software. It might be helpful if you build up a foundation in MD and DFT so you can recognize what’s going on in the software. MD and DFT calculations run on any software will have many of their core parts in one form or another (i.e. defining your system, time steps, plane waves, k-points, etc.)

Here is a decent book that might help (link)

It’s what I’ve always recommended to others as a first step into MD/DFT, not too dense and has many examples to go through.

UV-VIS (Tauc Plot), photoluminescence

Just wondering, how is your 2D material deposited? Is it a TMDC?

I think a good starting point for you would be to do some benchmarking. You could research types of rubbers used in other marine applications. One similar example would be the rubber bumpers on the edge of ships and docks. The material requirements are quite similar so you could definitely get some inspiration there.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/ship-rubber-bumper-boat-damper_1906909303.html?spm=a2700.7724857.29.19.JcOs7E&s=p

The standard "rubber" is butadiene rubber (BR) as used in ABS (acrylic butadiene styrene) and taking the above product it uses a blend of PVC+EPDM+BR, taking the beneficial properties of each to create the ideal material.

Exactly this. May I just add De Gennes' book. I feel that it nicely complements Tinkham's.

Also for a deeper dive in the theoretical background (possibly an overkill), Rickayzen's Theory of Superconductivity does a very good job.

In the spirit of knowing the range of applicability while reading, it is worth noting that all these references focus on the BCS theory of superconductivity. Depending on what OP will be working on, they might need to branch out, but these will provide a solid foundation to depart from.

They sell cheap 4 point probe testers on amazon. Here are a few I dug up with a cursory search.

https://www.amazon.com/Extech-380460-Precision-110VAC-Milliohm/dp/B000NI2BFQ/

https://www.amazon.com/NKTECH-Multimeter-Multimetro-Diagnostic-tool-Screwdriver/dp/B07573MZ65/

If you're looking for something expensive I'm sure ThermoFisher or Fluke sells them too. Eddy current you're looking at $5k+ starting and they're not easy to use either.

https://www.instagram.com/p/-zCtnqL4qS/?taken-by=themcsgroupuk There is a scale bar on here if you want it, 99% of the time I do manage to include one. I was on my way out the office and just thought I should throw it quickly on here as it looked cool.

I have looked into activated charcoal. However, the dimensions of what I need, a 20 inch side with 2 inches depth (depth is recommended by some youtube air filter tests), filters for those seem non existent. The closest one that I can find is this Merv 12. Now's since, it's MERV 12, would that negate the carbon effect on removing the smoke smell? Then it also only sells at 12 pack for $200! I'm really rethinking the praises for the Corsi boxes.

Do you know if air filters are usually this expensive? It's hard to think that the Corsi-Rosenthal box that's designed with cost effectiveness in mind suddenly have you paying hundreds of dollars for them.

Eg. ($60 fan + $125 four filters = $185) at least in Canada. I don't even know the best box fan to go along with it.

https://www.amazon.com/Materials-Science-Engineering-Introduction-8th/dp/0470419970

Callister is pretty much the go-to for materials basics. Edition doesn’t matter much, the info is basically all the same

I am pretty sure that the elements of your transformation matrix are the cosines of the angles between the basis vectors (ie: a_i and a'_j). I don't have the exact details in memory or on hand. I highly recommend you pick up a copy of JF Nye's book on this subject. https://www.amazon.com/Physical-Properties-Crystals-Representation-Matrices/dp/0198511655

I have a question, for more complex shape square lattice, how we would consider the smaller squares in that cases is that isostress or isostrain? example in this paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Fatigue-Resistant-elastomers-Li-Yang/b3a8baf86da7bbe6172f0c43319feaa089347bae

Technically materials that have this property intrinsically are thermoluminescent. But I doubt there'd be anything that has the properties you want. This paper: Preparation and Properties of Thermoluminescent Materials, which is probably behind a paywall, talks about several types of thermoluminescent materials. They include metal hydrides (LiF) and BeO, which is highly toxic. The way they work is they absorb radiation and store energy in the form of excited electrons. But these electrons don't decay unless the material is heated, at which point energy is released in the form of photons. However, for most materials the temperatures required are well above 100 C.

Still a pretty cool material though. They use these in dosimeters, which are rings you wear if you work with dangerous radiation. The thermoluminescent powder in the rings absorbs radiation about as well as your body does, so they can use that to check how close to death you might be. Super fun

Traditionally, steel angle iron was most commonly used and was often adjustable to any size box spring or bed board (piece of plywood): https://smile.amazon.com/Zinus-Michelle-Compack-Adjustable-Mattress/dp/B00IGGJQ6O/

Tubing seems to be more common now so you don't need a box spring except for flexibility. Basically steel futon frames, with or without the ability to fold.

Check out a book called Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik . It's a great introductory novel-like book that shows the world of materials science and its importance in our society. It'll also give you a general idea of what to expect as a material scientists.

As others have stated, it's a broad field. Nevertheless, it's a more chemistry leaning field. I'm a mechanical engineering major, but found a deep love for materials science over the years and have specialized in metallurgy.

If you have any specific questions regarding your interests, questions etc, feel free to shoot me a message.

The numbers are crystallographic directions. The notation is called Miller Indices.

If you line up an x, y, z coordinate system with the edges of the unit cell of a crystal, you can think of them as vectors. In other words, the <112> direction is where you go one unit cell in the x direction, 1 in the y, and 2 in the z. The (112) plane would be the plane of atoms perpendicular to this direction.

The wikipedia page I linked has a nice description. The first picture is a bunch of examples of different planes in cubic crystals. As you can see, the (100) plane points in the same direction of the faces of the cube. The (110) plane points the same way as the edges. And finally, the (111) plane points in the direction of the corners. That is what I was trying to describe in the 3rd paragraph above.

Here is a nice visualizer where you can type in any Miller indices you want and see what the plane looks like in a cubic crystal.

If you input a 111 plane, then rotate the model so you are looking perpendicular to the plane, you will see that one of the corners of the cube will be pointed at the camera. Same thing with 100 planes and 110 planes except faces and edges will be pointed at the camera respectively.

Are you willing to roll them up? If so, PVC pipe should be able to last >100 years.

Would recommend a mechanical seal for the ends, smth like threaded endcaps

I can't give any advice on concrete, but I have a recommendation for steel. We used this one specific to corrosion when I took that class. There's a lot to dig into in it. Just be advised that you may want to borrow a chemistry for dummies book or keep some sort of chem reference nearby when you peruse it, because it does mention redox reactions and the like.

Let's see...

> ...aluminum plate to use as a laptop surface.

> I've used cheap carbon fiber in the past but found it heavy...

> ...could use the heat sinking properties of aluminum for my application.

> Literally going to be a rectangular plate of aluminum to place a laptop on. ...not be affixed to anything, ever

Well. Two things:

A) Chances are good that the aluminum plate is not going to make a measurable difference in the temperature of your laptop because it'll not have a conductive link to the heat source or provide a dramatic improvement in airflow compared to other rigid surfaces such as the "cheap carbon fiber" you mentioned.

B) Aluminum is 2-5x heavier than CF to obtain the same rigidity for this application.

If you really think about your application of supporting the laptop (presumably in your lap) while helping it cool down, then you only have two options: 1) Rigid support that does not obstruct airflow around the laptop. 2) Mechanisms that provide additional airflow.

Another logical goal here is to prevent that heat from accumulating in one's body/groin. For that reason, it's best to have an insulative layer on bottom of the surface to act as a heat shield.

Now, if you look at commercial solutions they focus on just facets 1 and 2, and most all of them consist of raised mesh surfaces with or without fans. My suggestion is buy something commercial from a bargain bin, or if you like to DIY follow a guide like this one.

Meh. This type of thing has been around for years. The only interesting part is that they nucleated crystallization optically, but honestly that's not particularly surprising either.

It would be an interesting idea... I'm leaning towards this being a beginner course. The next one could be an intermediate 'Applications in Materials Engineering' with the titles you suggest, and relying heavily on Ashby's Materials Selection in Mechanical Design.

Good question. My current pitcher has a removable lid. Depending on the orientation of that lid on the pitcher, it allows liquid to pass uninhibited out of the pitcher, or through a course mesh, to keep larger solids (like ice cubes) inside the pitcher. It is essentially identical to this pitcher, which advertises, "Three position cover that turns for free pouring, pouring with ice guard or closed."

I was hoping to get a pitcher with a similar lid. But I'm also aware the lid may be part of the mold issue. Usually the fridge is pretty spartan, with zero food inside (other than condiments sealed in jars/bottles). Occasionally I keep food like in there for a day or so at a time (e.g. pizza in a pizza box, or other food in sealed tupperware).

Maybe as I test, with my current pitcher, I could use it without a lid for a few weeks, and see if the situation improves?

It's unlikely that I'd need to go above 350 F, even then, that's pretty high. I'll be using it to run extraction experiments, and my primary solvents have a boiling point between 150-175F so my normal operating temperature won't be above 200F. However, those heating elements get wicked hot, hot enough for the stainless casing to grow bright red. I wired up a voltage regulator in addition to my PID so the heating elements don't have to run at full blast, but I'd like to be able to run them on high if need be. Ohh and I'm using an external temperature probe, so my temp readings will be based off the temp of my solution, not the plate.

This is a highly personal decision. I suggest you take a look at the preview for the index of a popular intro materials science textbook, Callister. Click "look inside" and browse the topics.

Another thing you can do is look at some of the research professors are doing at the campus you're applying to. If it looks fascinating, pick this field.