Stories about Materials Science and Engineering

Two side-by-side grain boundary illustrations

Mathematical Model Predicts How Microstructures Change at High Temperatures

Predicting grain growth is key to the creation of new materials.


A New Approach to Combating Osteoarthritis

Lesley Chow and partners at St. Luke’s University Health Network aim to provide early stage intervention for degenerative joint disease.

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Lehigh Student Awarded Prestigious DOE Grant to Conduct Research at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Evan John Musterman's research is at the forefront of laser-fabricated single crystal architectures in glass. He is one of 80 students to receive the highly competitive award through the Office of Science Graduate Student Research program.

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Lehigh Bioengineering Major takes Top Honors at Undergraduate Research Symposium

Several Lehigh students were recognized at the David and Loraine Freed Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 6.

Researchers discover enhanced reaction rate when gold and palladium nanoparticles are placed on a conductive support.

A More Efficient Path to Green Production of Bio-Derived Chemicals and Fuels

Researchers discover an enhanced reaction rate when gold and palladium nanoparticles are placed on a conductive support.

Artistic rendering of Lesley Chow's new method to create continuous, highly organized scaffolds to regenerate two different tissues

A New Approach to Tissue Engineering: Lesley Chow Creates Scaffolds for Tissue Regeneration

Chow and her team have demonstrated a new method to create continuous, highly organized scaffolds for tissue regeneration.

A schematic drawing showing a 3-D rendering of a cantilever in contact with the surface of a ferroelectric material.

Neural Network Technique Identifies Mechanisms of Ferroelectric Switching

Joshua Agar’s AI technique has allowed him and his team to identify and visualize geometrically driven differences in ferroelectric domain switching, an important advancement for next-generation computing.

Printer head on a solvent-cast 3D printer depositing the functionalized polymer inks layer-by-layer from a needle in the lab of Lehigh professor Lesley Chow

New Biofabrication Method Creates One Scaffold to Guide Regeneration of Multiple Tissues

Lesley Chow and her team present a new 3D printing platform to fabricate multi-component scaffolds that “steal from nature” to engineer tissues organized like native tissues.


Russell Y.T. Chou Memorial Service to be Held Saturday

The professor emeritus of materials science and engineering passed away peacefully in July 2019.

Students walk outside of Lehigh University's Packard Lab

Three Lehigh Engineering Students Receive Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The Lehigh students and one recent alumna are among the 2,051 students offered fellowships in 2019.