Hand-picked textbooks, free courses, databases, and software for going deeper into materials science.
The standard undergraduate textbook. Comprehensive survey of structure, properties, and processing across metals, ceramics, and polymers.
Engineering-focused intro with strong coverage of mechanical behavior and materials selection case studies.
Clear writing and worked examples. A solid alternative to Callister for first-year materials courses.
Balanced treatment of fundamentals with strong diagrams for crystal structures and phase diagrams.
The clearest introduction to point groups, space groups, and reciprocal space. Ideal first book before tackling Cullity.
Graduate-level treatment of crystallography, symmetry, and diffraction with mathematically rigorous derivations.
Open-access repository of over 500,000 crystal structures distributed as free CIF files. No login required.
Free online tools for space-group analysis, Wyckoff positions, group-subgroup relations, and representation theory.
The classic XRD reference. Covers geometry, peak intensities, structure factor, and Rietveld refinement basics.
The definitive TEM textbook. Four volumes covering basics, imaging, diffraction, and spectrometry.
The standard reference for SEM, EDS, and WDS. Authoritative on electron-sample interactions and quantitative analysis.
Authoritative tabulated photon cross sections from 1 keV to 20 MeV for all elements and common compounds.
Best intro to nucleation, growth, and diffusional transformations. Clear physical explanations, excellent figures.
Rigorous coverage of free energy, chemical potential, and solution thermodynamics with worked metallurgical examples.
Graduate-level. Strong on multicomponent phase equilibria and the mathematical foundations of CALPHAD.
Curated binary and ternary phase diagrams for thousands of alloy systems. Subscription required for full access.
Deeply physical treatment of deformation, strengthening mechanisms, and fracture. The go-to for grad-level mechanical metallurgy.
A classic. Encyclopedic coverage of plasticity, dislocations, and strengthening. Older but still authoritative.
Modern treatment with excellent chapters on dynamic behavior, shock, and high-strain-rate deformation.
The standard reference for fatigue, fracture mechanics, and environmental cracking. Strong on failure-analysis case studies.
The modern reference for radiation damage, defect kinetics, and irradiation effects in metals and alloys.
The canonical text on oxide fuel behavior. Originally DOE-published and available as a free PDF from DOE OSTI.
Multi-volume reference covering fuels, cladding, structural materials, and waste forms. Breadth unmatched in the field.
Thousands of free technical reports, safety guides, and TECDOCs on reactor materials, fuel cycles, and radiation protection.
Interactive teaching and learning packages on crystallography, phase diagrams, mechanical testing, and more. Arguably the best free materials science resource online.
Full undergraduate course covering thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and bonding. Notes, problem sets, and exams included.
Donald Sadoway's legendary intro to bonding, structure, and reactions. Video lectures, problem sets, and exams are all free.
Hundreds of hours of free video lectures from Indian Institutes of Technology covering nearly every materials science subfield.
Free DFT-computed properties for over 150,000 inorganic compounds. Band structures, elastic constants, phase diagrams, and phonons.
Free 3D visualization for crystal structures, electron densities, and Fermi surfaces. Reads CIF and most common formats.
Free atomic visualization and analysis for MD trajectories. Common-neighbor analysis, dislocation extraction, and more.
Free crystal structure visualization from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. Excellent for molecular and organic crystals.
Commercial but widely used. Polished crystal and diffraction visualization with an excellent UI. Student licenses available.