Caltech Research Centers

• Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials (CSEM)
• The Caltech Center for Sustainable Energy Research (CCSER)
• Center for Ferroelectric Engineering
• Materials and Process Simulation Center
• Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative
• Power, Environmental, and Energy Research Center (PEER)

Caltech Library Materials Science Links

• Ibid Document Delivery [login page]
• CLAS Library Book Search
• Caltech Online Journals
• CLS Collection [Includes many of the links below]

Professional Societies

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Chemical Society
• American Ceramics Society
• American Crystallographic Association
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• American Institute of Physics
• American Physical Society
• ASM International
• American Vacuum Society
• The Electrochemical Society
• The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
• Materials Research Society
• National Academy of Sciences

U.S. National Laboratories and Government Agencies

• Ames National Laboratory
• Argonne National Laboratory
• Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Department of Energy
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
• National Science Foundation
• National Technical Information Service
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Sandia National Laboratories

Materials Safety Data Sheets

• Oxford Materials Safety Data Sheets
• Alfa Aesar MSDS through catalog

General Materials Science Information

• WWW Virtual Library: Materials Engineering
• Yahoo's Materials Science Index

Materials Education

• MATTER Home Page: Materials Teaching Educational Resources
• Materials Science Education site at the University of Michigan

Ceramics

• Ceramic Consulting Group

Nanotechnology

• Brad Hein's Nanotechnology Page

Databases and Catalogs

• Lawrence Berkely National Labs: X-ray Interactionswith Matter
• Martindale's The Reference Desk: Science Tables and Databases
• The National Nuclear Data Center at Brookhaven National Labs
• WebElements II: Periodic Table of the Elements
• XAFS Database

Microscopy

• Electron Microscopy Yellow Pages
• Microscopy and Microanalysis WWW server
• MicroWorld Resources and News

Polymers

• Chemtec Publishing- reference materials about polymer blends, composites, additives, recycling, and rheology
• Polymer Chemistry Hypertext
• Yahoo's Polymers Index

Crystallography

• Acta Crystallographica A - Foundations of Crystallography
• Acta Crystallographica B - Structural Science
• Acta Crystallographica C - Crystal Structure Communications
• Acta Crystallographica D - Biological Crystallography
• Journal of Applied Crystallography
• Journal of Synchrotron Radiation
• Powder Diffraction or if the previous link fails try the manual route WWW Virtual Library: Crystallography

Synchrotron Radiation Resources

• Berkeley Advanced Light Source (ALS)
• Advanced Photon Source (APS)
• Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL)
• SURF II - Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility at NIST

Neutron Radiation Resources

• Argonne National Laboratory: Neutron/Photon scattering server
• Argonne National Laboratory: Intense Pulsed Neutron Source
• Brookhaven National Laboratory: High Flux Beam Reactor
• Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center—LANSCE
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory: High Flux Isotope Reactor