Category:Materials: Difference between revisions

Various types of materials such as films, fluids, oils and solids

Subcategories

• Biological & biomedical materials - materials evolving from biological structures
• Composite materials - often called simply composites, materials composed of two or more constituent materials with significantly different characteristics which maintain their distinctiveness when combined
• Crystalline materials - solid materials whose constituent atoms are arranged in an orderly and repeating pattern in three dimensions
• Films - thin chemical coverings applied to a material's surface
• Fluids - substances that continually deform under applied pressure, composing both liquids and gases
• Metamaterials - artificial materials engineered to have properties that may not be found in nature, often used in producing optic materials
• Oils - a substance that is liquid at normal temperatures but does not mix with water
• Photoconducting materials - materials that become more electrically conductive due to the absorption of electromagnetic radiation
• Polymers - a large molecule composed of repeating structural units
• Resins - the hydrocarbon secretion of some plants, usually conifers, which can produce varnishes, adhesives and other products