Materials Science and Engineering

Research and design of energy materials, computational materials, characterization methods, soft materials and biomaterials, structural materials, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials. Below are resources for finding scholarly articles, trade publications, datasets, patents, standards, and technical reports.

Key Databases

The best first place to go if you're looking for research materials in this discipline.

Web of Science

Multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international pro...

Compendex

Coverage: 1884-present. Subject areas include nuclear technology, bioengineering, transportation, chemical and process engineering, light and optical ...

Knovel scientific and engineering databases

A collection of full-text databases in the following subject areas: Adhesives Coatings Sealants & Inks, Aerospace & Radar Technology, Chemistr...

INSPEC

Coverage: 1896-present. Indexes and abstracts serials, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, electrical engineering ...

Scopus

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a ...

NC State University Safety Data Sheets (SDS) Management System

Collection of over 500,000 material safety data sheets for chemical products. MSDS commonly contain information on chemical and physical properties; h...

Patents

Derwent innovations index - The Derwent Innovations Index, available through the ISI Web of Knowledge interface, is a Web-access...

Standards

ASTM compass - ASTM compass contains standards from ASTM, AATCC and ISO and IEC standards adopted as European Stand...
Intertek i2i - Includes full-text standards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) as well as a s...

Chemistry-Related

SciFinder Discovery Platform - SciFinder Discovery Platform is the most comprehensive database for coverage of chemistry and chemic...
Reaxys - Use Reaxys to obtain checked physico-chemical data, preparation/reaction methods for pure compounds,...
Cambridge structural database system - The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is the largest curated crystal structure database, containin...

Materials Properties and Phase Diagrams

Phase equilibria diagrams online - Retrieve over 23,000 diagrams previously published in over 21 ACerS/NIST Phase equilibria diagram vo...
SpringerMaterials - SpringerMaterials includes the Landolt-Bèornstein New Series, the unique, fully evaluated data colle...