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Materials Science and Engineering

Library Catalog

Locating Books

To locate books on your topic, use the UCLA Library Catalog. As a starting point, use a keyword search on the likely terms. You may also browse by call number. Call number ranges for materials science and engineering include:

  • QC 176 — Solid state physics / Condensed matter physics
  • QD 380-388 — Polymer chemistry
  • QD 965 — Crystallography
  • TA 401-409 — General materials science
  • TA 410-418 — "Special" materials, including composites, nanomaterials. etc.
  • TA 459-489 — Metals and alloys
  • TK 7871 — Electronic materials
  • TN 600-799 — Metallurgy
    • TN 690 — Alloy phase diagrams
  • TP 1087-1190 — Plastics and polymer engineering

E-book Collections

Selected e-book collections. For full list, see E-books in Science and Engineering.

Reference Sources (Encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, etc.)