Topic

Materials science

four students at DomesDay competition

Engineering failure

January 16, 2026
A team of first-year ASU students won an award for building a dome that failed less destructively at the 2025 ASM International DomesDay competition.
Yi “Max” Ren and Yang Jiao look at a laptop screen.

ASU researchers to unlock materials design efficiency

July 23, 2025
Two ASU researchers earn an NSF grant to develop an AI model capable of reasoning beyond information published in literature, which has never been done before.
An acorn weevil species.

Weevil genius: Insect inspires stronger, more flexible materials

October 9, 2019
Stronger and more flexible material structures could result from Arizona State University researchers exploring acorn weevil exoskeletons.
Photo of two men holding a certificate. Caption: Lead writer Chaitanya Kale accepts the Light Metals Division Magnesium Technology Award at the 147th Annual TMS Meeting for Best Student Paper. Photo courtesy of Chaitanya Kale.

Student paper pioneers research on promising alloy

April 2, 2018
MultiPhysics Lab graduate students won Best Student Paper for research on unique behavior in lightweight material from The Materials, Metals and Minerals Society.
Photo of an aircraft carrier at sea. Caption: Many military ships and aircraft are made largely of aluminum alloys. In research funded by the Navy, Air Force and the Department of Defense, two recently graduated Fulton Schools doctoral students explored ways to lessen the corrosive impacts of the environment on those alloys. Photo courtesy of Pixabay

Combating corrosion: Making metals mightier

March 21, 2018
Two doctoral students’ award-winning research paper reveals insight into metal corrosion that’s valuable to the U.S. military.
Portrait of Robert Wang. Caption: Robert Wang is looking to help mend this technological gap by creating new high frequency phononic crystals with a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

NSF CAREER Award winner reimagines nanocrystals for new technology

February 14, 2018
Robert Wang is looking to help mend this technological gap by creating new high frequency phononic crystals with a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

January 2026 – February 2018