Category:Materials

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

Subcategories

• Aggregates & resists
• Amorphous materials - solids that lack the consistent order characteristics of a crystal, glass being the most common material
• 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
• Fluids
• Mesoporous materials
• 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
• Optical materials - materials that effect the transmission of light
• Organic inorganic hybrid materials - materials in which biological and non-biological materials are combined at a nanometer level
• Phase change materials - or PCM, a substance with a high heat of fusion, capable of storing and releasing large amounts of energy
• Photoconducting materials
• Polymers - a large molecule composed of repeating structural units
• Radioactive materials - materials whose atoms lose energy by emitting ionizing particles
• Raw materials - materials that have not been processed or re-figured by human activity
• Resins - the hydrocarbon secretion of some plants, usually conifers, which can produce varnishes, adhesives and other products
• Solids - one of the three states of matter in which materials are characterized by structural rigidity and resistance to change
• Waste materials - excess materials that are extruded as part of a production process