Library Guides: Physical and Chemical Properties: Search by Material

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Databases to search for specific materials:

SciFinder This link opens in a new window
Search the world's most comprehensive source of references, substances, and reactions in chemistry and related sciences.
Note: Restricted to UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff. Requires creation of a personal account from an @berkeley.edu email address.
Indexes over 9,000 journals, patents, conferences, books, technical reports and dissertations related to chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and the biomedical sciences. Relates to the print equivalent Chemical Abstracts.
Reaxys This link opens in a new window
Find property, reaction, synthesis, and bibliographic information for chemicals.
A web-based interface for three chemical information databases, Beilstein, Gmelin and the Patent Chemistry Database (PCD). Structure, reaction and citation searching are possible. Reaxys is a key resource for locating information on how to synthesis organic, inorganic and organometallic compounds. It is also a good source for critically evaluated data on on physical, chemical, spectral, bioactivity, or toxicological properties of chemical compounds.
ASM Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Provides data and background information on materials properties, processes, performance, and selection. Covers metals as well as engineered materials such as composites, ceramics, and plastics.
Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology This link opens in a new window
Covers all areas of materials science including structural materials, functional materials, structural phenomena, functional phenomena, polymers and materials chemistry.
SpringerMaterials: The Landolt-Bornstein Database This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database that covers the physical and chemical properties in materials science.
Collection of fully evaluated data from all fields of physics, physical chemistry, geophysics, astronomy, biophysics and materials science & engineering.
ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center This link opens in a new window
Provides access to an extensive collection of binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated data.
ASM International
Knovel This link opens in a new window
Find technical information as well as analytical and search tools for the engineering community.
Collection of over 8000 engineering and scientific reference handbooks, texts, and databases. Can be searched by topic across the aggregated set, or users can browse the content of a specific title. Advanced features include numerical range searching and interactive graphs and tables.
DIPPR Project 801 This link opens in a new window
The 2023 Edition of DIPPR 801 is a renowned source of Evaluated Process Design Data of physical, thermodynamic, and transport properties for industrially important chemicals used in chemical process and equipment design. With newly added compounds, this latest Knovel version contains data for 34 constant properties and 49 thermophysical properties as well as molecular structure, SMILES, hazard and safety properties, physical constants, and critical properties, in 4 interactive tables. Compound data includes experimental data and, when necessary, estimated values that have been reviewed to ensure the greatest accuracy possible. Now with updated coefficient sets the Knovel interactive equation plotter applets deliver comprehensive data for 2263 of compounds in 15 temperature-dependent property tables.
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology This link opens in a new window
This encyclopedia presents a wide scope of articles on chemical substances, industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology, as well as fundamentals related to Chemistry.
Covers all areas of chemical technology including the properties, manufacturing, and uses of chemicals and materials, processes, and engineering principles.
Polymers: A Property Database This link opens in a new window
Find properties for a very wide range of polymers, both synthetic and natural.
Provides information on a wide variety of polymers including molecular formulas, structures and chemical properties. Also provides links to related websites.
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry This link opens in a new window
A reference work detailing the science and technology in all areas of industrial chemistry
Covers all facets of industrial chemistry including polymers, plastics, metals, alloys and environmental protection. Includes tables and figures, as well as literature sources and cross-references.
CHEMnetBASE This link opens in a new window
A collection of chemical dictionaries and handbooks providing descriptions, properties and uses for various compounds and substances. (CRCnetBASE)
A collection of chemical dictionaries and handbooks providing descriptions, properties and uses for various compounds and substances.
ChemSpider This link opens in a new window
Free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 43 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
Pharos This link opens in a new window
Pharos provides hazard, use, and exposure information on chemicals and building products. NOTE: You must first register for an account using the link here and your Berkeley email address.
Search by chemical name/CAS RN, or use (for example: flooring, solvent, etc.). Pharos also includes Hazard Lists (authoritative scientific lists for health and environmental hazards and restricted substance lists), as well as Common Products (common contents and hazards of different kinds of building products).
CINDAS Microelectronics and Composite Materials Database (MCMD) This link opens in a new window
Contains data on thermal, mechanical, electrical and physical properties of electronics packaging materials, including over 750 materials and over 15,000 data curves. Dynamic graphing capabilities allow users to compare the same property of multiple materials, change scale ranges, and export data.
Contains data on thermal, mechanical, electrical and physical properties of electronics packaging materials, including over 750 materials and over 15,000 data curves. Dynamic graphing capabilities allow users to compare the same property of multiple materials, change scale ranges, and export data.
CINDAS Thermophysical Properties of Matter Database (TPMD) This link opens in a new window
Contains thermophysical properties of over 5,000 materials with approximately 50,000 data curves. Searchable by material name, by property, or by string (partial name). Dynamic graphing capabilities allow users to compare the same property of multiple materials, change scale ranges, and export data.
Searchable by material name, by property, or by string (partial name).
International Critical Tables of Numeric Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology This link opens in a new window
Find critical data for inorganic and organic compounds and pure substances including physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties.
Contains tables of physical, thermodynamic, mechanical and other critical data on inorganic compounds, organic compounds and pure substances. Based on the original published from 1926-1930.
NIST Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties Database (REFPROP) This link opens in a new window
Computer program that provides thermophysical properties of pure fluids and mixtures over a wide range of fluid conditions including liquid, gas, and supercritical phases.
Note: Requires software download and installation. Version 10.0.
Powder Diffraction File (PDF-4/full file) This link opens in a new window
Database of powder diffraction patterns from the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD). Note: Access to PDF-5+ (PDF-4+ and PDF-4/Organics) provided onsite at the Chemistry, Astronomy & Physics Library.
Each data set contains diffraction, crystallographic and bibliographic data, as well as experimental, instrument and sampling conditions, and select physical properties in a common standardized format.
WebElements Periodic Table This link opens in a new window
Provides history, description, properties and uses of chemical elements
Provides history, description, properties and uses of all the elements in the periodic table.
Smithsonian Physical Tables This link opens in a new window
Find common physical and chemical data relevant to scientists and engineers
Contains tables of common physical and chemical data of general interest to scientists and engineers. Based on 9th revised edition published in 1954.

Web Resources for Materials Searching

Additional open access web resources to search for specific materials:

NIST Chemistry WebBook
Reliable thermophysical and spectral data for a few thousand important compounds. Much of the data is derived from prior NIST/NBS publications. Searchable by name, CAS registry number, formula, molecular weight, etc.
NIST Ceramics WebBook
Portal for searching the High Temperature Superconductors database (WebHTS), the Structural Ceramics Database (WebSCD), and the Property Data Summaries (WebPDS) database.
NIST Chemical Kinetics Database
The NIST Chemical Kinetics Database includes essentially all reported kinetics results for thermal gas-phase chemical reactions. The database is designed to be searched for kinetics data based on the specific reactants involved, for reactions resulting in specified products, for all the reactions of a particular species, or for various combinations of these. In addition, the bibliography can be searched by author name or combination of names.
NIST Physical Reference Data
A portal for accessing physical reference data from the NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory.
NDRL/NIST Solution Kinetics Database
The NDRL/NIST Solution Kinetics Database contains data on rate constants for solution-phase chemical reactions. The database is designed to be searched by reactants, products, solvents, or any combination of these. In addition, the bibliography may be searched by author name, title words, journal, page(s), and/or year. Present coverage of the literature is through early 1995.
Spectral Database for Organic Compounds (SDBS)
SDBS is an integrated spectral database system for organic compounds. It includes electron impact Mass spectrum (EI-MS), a Fourier transform infrared spectrum (FT-IR), a 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum, a 13C NMR spectrum, a laser Raman spectrum, and an electron spin resonance (ESR) spectrum for each compound. Records include graphical structures and spectra, with peak assignments in many cases. Compounds may be searched by name, molecular formula, molecular weight, CAS Regostry Number, number of atoms/elements, and spectral data.
MatWeb
A free materials information database with property data on 19,013 materials including metals, plastics, ceramics, and composites.
MEMSnet
MEMSnet provides a complete list of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) materials and material properties.

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