该领域的研究致力于解决软材料和生物材料的结构与功能之间的关系。范围包括：抗菌和抗菌材料，生物气溶胶，生物催化，（生物）聚合物，生物污染和防污材料，仿生材料，生物分子传感，药物输送和靶向，纳米颗粒，光动力疗法，自修复材料和可持续生物材料。材料科学与工程学科一直在迅速变化，随着探索材料结构和特性动力学的实验工具，高通量多尺度计算方法和材料信息学的最新进展。同时，我们变得越来越跨学科和协作，使社区能够寻求和回答针对我们的全球挑战的更具创新性和复杂性的解决方案。这些发展不仅改变了我们的研究方式，而且改变了我们对待
Research in this area addresses the relationship between structure and function of soft and biomaterials. Scope includes: Antibacterial and antimicrobial materials; Bioaerosols; Biocatalysis; (bio)Polymers; Biofouling and antifouling; Biomimetic materials; Biomolecular sensing; Drug delivery and targeting; Nanoparticles; Photodynamic therapy; Self-healing materials; and Sustainable biomaterials. Materials science and engineering continues to change rapidly as a discipline, with recent advancements in experimental tools for probing the dynamics of material structure and properties, high-throughput multiscale computational methods and materials informatics. At the same time, we become increasingly interdisciplinary and collaborative, allowing the community to seek and answer more innovative and complex solutions to our global challenges. Not only do these developments change how we do research, but they change how we approach graduate education. MSE at NCSU continuously modernizes our graduate training paradigm, with the goal of providing a supportive environment, leading educators and state-of-the-art resources to create outstanding scientists, engineers and global leaders. While an innovative graduate curriculum and graduate-research mentorship continue to underpin the graduate program, we also emphasize leadership skills, global engagement and entrepreneurialism. Through programs such as the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship on the Science and Engineering of Atomic Structure, we take a leading role in changing the global paradigm for interdisciplinary graduate education.