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Although categorized as an engineering field which normally studies artificial materials, metallurgy has also treated natural objects in its long history. Metallurgy and Alchemy, which are the basis of present-day materials science, have also produced all the natural sciences, including chemistry and physics. The field of materials science is expanding rapidly to include amorphous, ceramic, polymer, and nanoscale materials.
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Ohno, K., Esfarjani, K., Kawazoe, Y. (2018). Introduction. In: Computational Materials Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56542-1_1
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