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> Really “material science” was a sort of fancy label for the chemistry of things we use to build other things. Wrong, much of what material scientists do rela
by perlgeek 4y ago
> Really “material science” was a sort of fancy label for the chemistry of things we use to build other things.
Wrong, much of what material scientists do relate to the physical properties of the materials.
I know a few material scientists, and while they do have a small part of the lab that looks pretty much like a chemistry lab, most of their methods and goals differ from what happens in a typical chemistry lab.
- ghaff 4y agoThey're adjacent fields and get into things like polymers and there's a fair bit of overlap. But metallurgy, for example, deals with a lot of things that chemistry mostly doesn't related to mechanical properties at different size scaales for example.