through the looking glass

Candidacy season is upon us, so this chapter summary will just be a very quick one. In this post, I will run through the different kinds of ...

This post is a simple and qualitative review of regular solution theory and how it extends into the Flory-Huggins theory. Regular solution t...

There are many types of polymers: natural polymers such as wood, rubber, cotton, wool, leather, and silk; biological polymers such as pro...

In the last chapter, we talked about the different types of atomic bonding. Here, we’ll go one step further and discuss how these atoms are...

The way atoms are arranged and how they interact with each other within a material directly affect the material’s properties. The most clas...

Now that it’s summer, I am finally making good on my promise to post chapter summaries of Materials Science and Engineering: An Introductio...

What I've learned from the few sessions I've had on the Tecnai at Penn State's Materials Characterization Lab so far is that usi...