The interdisciplinary field of materials science, also commonly termed materials science and engineering, involves the discovery and design of new materials, with an emphasis on solids. The intellectual origins of materials science stem from the Enlightenment, when researchers began to use analytical thinking from chemistry, physics, and engineering to understand ancient, phenomenological observations in metallurgy and mineralogy. Materials science still incorporates elements of physics, chemistry, and engineering. As such, the field was long considered by academic institutions as a sub-field of these related fields. Beginning in the 1940s, materials science began to be more widely recognized as a specific and distinct field of science and engineering, and major technical universities around the world created dedicated schools of the study.

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Materials Science Forum (MSF) ISSN print 0255-5476 ISSN web 1662-9752	Key Engineering Materials (KEM) ISSN print 1013-9826 ISSN web 1662-9795	Solid State Phenomena (SSP) ISSN print 1012-0394 ISSN web 1662-9779	Defect and Diffusion Forum (DDF) ISSN print 1012-0386 ISSN web 1662-9507

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