Metals are one of the most widely used materials in the world, serving as one of the elemental building blocks of society and technology. The combination of different elemental metals are what are known as metal alloys, and we use them every day in our cell phones, cars, buildings, cookware, and so on. Materials scientists, engineers, and...

Researchers from the University of California, Riverside have advanced their progress for the “Window to the Brain” (WttB) transparent skull implant. The purpose of the transparent WttB implant is to enable optical diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to be conducted through the implant, instead of needing to open the skull for optical access to...

Have you ever wondered how researchers are able to understand and discover different properties of materials? Prof. Chen Li’s research group in the Mechanical Engineering Department is using high pressure as a tool to (1) understand the physics of fundamental excitations in the materials; (2) tune the properties of existing energy materials; and (3...

Disastrous fires like the Thomas Fire (the largest fire in California’s history) are expected to continue impacting the state. Did you know that researchers at UC Riverside Department of Mechanical Engineering have been committed to the study of wildfire behavior in the county? Work conducted at The Laboratory for Environmental Flow Modeling (LEFM)...