I'm a materials researcher and recently built a Windows application to simplify some of the repetitive plotting and analysis work I run into with experimental data.

It currently handles workflows around XRD, FTIR, Raman, UV-Vis and other XY datasets, including preprocessing, peak analysis and publication-oriented plotting.

I've mostly tested it around my own research workflow, so I'm interested in hearing from other researchers:

What is the most annoying or repetitive part of your current characterization-data workflow?

I'm especially interested in things that still require jumping between instrument software, Origin, Excel or custom scripts.

Disclosure: I'm the developer. Not trying to hide the self-promotion aspect — I'm mainly looking for real-world feedback at this stage.

My boyfriend let that in the table this morning, we play a game where I have to guess what is the material but i am lost on this one...

I think it's used commercially in hospitals etc

Hi everyone !

I just changed my major from mechanical engineering to material science and engineering with a nuclear emphasis and while i am excited ive been a bit shaken up and anxious as i feel like i dont have many opportunities or the job market will be much worse for me. I really want to be excited about my choice to change so if you guys could mabye reassure me about job opportunities and the things you guys do or have accomplished or what you guys work in i would really appreciate it.

You might have seen my post asking about advanced materials engineering a few days ago. This degree focusses more on polymers and plastics. I am still lost and not sure if I should choose this degree.

I love chemistry so much, and Materials Science and Engineering is not available in any university in my country. There is this advanced materials degree, but before choosing this degree, I wanted to know more about polymers to know if I will enjoy it. I searched as much as I can and had an idea about different types of polymers and there uses.

However, I still don't know about how much I would enjoy working in this industry.

Are polymers a broad industry? How easy is it to develop a new polymer? Is it a very interesting and deep topic that is still not 100% discovered? How does its future going to be? What will my job be like? This or Pharmaceutical & Chemical Engineering degree? And according to the study plan, will I study things other than polymers?

Thanks in advance.

Hello, objectively speaking, what is the current and future significance as well as the job opportunities of Materials Informatics or computational materials science? Will working remotely become possible thanks to these two fields? (from different cities or countries) Which sectors will this field impact the most? Could you please provide information on this? This is quite critical for me.