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Researchers have developed a new carbon-negative building material that could reshape approaches to sustainable construction.

Princeton Engineering researchers are combining their expertise in chemical engineering, materials and computation to design crystalline materials that can be used to mitigate pollution or make ...

Every summer, our cities burn energy to keep us cool. The same happens in winter with the increasing demand for heating.

Imagine McCormick’s future. What will it look like? Over the past academic year, Northwestern Engineering leadership—including Dean Christopher Schuh, the school’s nine department faculty chairs, and ...

As product development teams face increasingly complex challenges — including the need for greater sustainability — there’s a growing awareness of the critical contributions made by materials. Many of ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering share a strong history of interconnected research activities, established research centers, and ...

Materials informatics sits at the intersection of experimental science, computation, and data analytics. The aim is simple: use data and models to make discovering, designing, and deploying new ...