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Matter Compilation: Crash Course Kids. States of Matter - Solid, Liquid, Gases. Interesting Animated Lesson For Children. Materials song (3rd/4th) Strange Matter: What is Materials Science? Who are materials scientists and what do they do?

Strange Matter: What is Materials Science?

You've probably heard of a chemist, a biologist or a physicist, but have you ever heard of a materials scientist? Probably not. One reason is that materials science covers a huge range of activity and touches on many different fields - including chemistry, biology and physics! Sometimes materials scientists are called ceramic or polymer engineers or metallurgists, and you can find them working in industries, labs, and universities all over the world. But diverse as they are, materials scientists look at materials from a unified point of view: they look for connections between the underlying structure of a material, its properties, how processing changes it, and what the material can do - its performance.