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Narayan and Yingling Honored with 2025 R.J. Reynolds Awards

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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Aug 6, 2026

National Science Foundation Renews Support for STEPS Center

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded more than $22 million in follow-on funding to the Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center, which is headquartered at NC State.
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Jul 16, 2026

Researchers Extend the Limits of Twistronics. Literally.

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for fabricating oxide twistronic materials at much larger sizes, while also controlling the twist angles between materials that dictate their structural and electronic properties.
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Jul 14, 2026

New Technique Sheds Light on Longstanding Debates About Ferroelectric Materials

New findings are shedding light on longstanding debates over the behavior of ferroelectric materials when those materials are exposed to electric fields.
illustration shows a layer of molybdenum disulfide on the left; on the right, the illustration shows a layer of tin selenide being laid on top of the layer of molybdenum disulfide.

Jun 9, 2026

Van der Waals Forces Can Play Unexpected Role in Thin Film Properties

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to use van der Waals forces to tune the physical and electronic properties of ferroelectric thin films.
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Apr 30, 2026

Q&A With Swaroop Saralkar

Q&A with Swaroop Saralkar, a second-year PhD student in the Materials Science and Engineering program at NC State.

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Mar 24, 2026

A Family Legacy in Engineering Continues at NC State

Scott Walston turned his passion for Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) into a lifelong career and now gives back through a scholarship supporting future North Carolina State University MSE students.
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Mar 11, 2026

Dariush Heiranian Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award

The five-year award provides $548,900 sin funding for his project, “Atomistic-Scale Investigation of How Chemical and Physical Heterogeneities Govern Ion-Selective Transport in Metal-Organic Framework Membranes.”
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Mar 11, 2026

COE Faculty Members Level Up in Applied AI

The first cohort of College of Engineering (COE) faculty members to receive funding from two new award programs launched last year are expanding interdisciplinary research efforts and individual expertise in applied AI.
From left: Krista Walton, Yaroslava Yingling, Jim Pfaendtner, Roger Narayan and Chris Frey. Yaraslava and Roger are holding framed awards.

Jan 8, 2026

Narayan and Yingling Honored with 2025 R.J. Reynolds Awards

Roger Narayan and Yaroslava Yingling each received the 2025 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Extension, the most prestigious award the College of Engineering at NC State University presents to individual faculty members.