The following are links to corporate, university, and research labs working with materials. It also includes links to topics critical to understanding ceramic and materials engineering.

• American Ceramic Society
• Materials Reserach Society
• The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
• Federation of Materials Societies (FMS)
• ASM International
• SPIE The International Society for Optical Engineering
• Optical Society of America

• NIST-Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
• NIST-Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science
• Argonne National Laboratory-Materials Science Divisiton
• IBM Research Relating to Materials Science

• MATTER Online Resources (including Materials Science Glossary)
• Materials Science Resources on the Web from Iowa State University
• Materials Science and Engineering Career Resource Center
• MRS's Strange Matter Exhibit Online
• ASM International-Materials Engineering as a Career

• Office of Naval Research Crystal Structures
• Institut Laue-Langevin Crystal Structures
• Crystal- From Wikipedia

• Rheology Primer from South Bank University (UK)
• More information on Newtonian and non-Newtonian Fluids

• Basic Theromdynamics
• More Basic Thermo
• "Chemystery" Intro to Thermodynamics

• Solid State Sintering Basics (.pdf)

• Introduction to Phase Diagrams
• Understanding Single Component and Binary Phase Diagrams
• Understanding Ternary Phase Diagrams
• Collection of Elemental Binary Phase Diagrams (a fewternary, oxides, etc. at bottom)
• Phase Diagram PowerPoint Presentations from Univ. Missouri-Rolla

• The Sol-Gel Getaway
• Bell Labs' Intro to Sol Gels
• Chemat's Intro to Sol Gels