This feature helps you find the list of materials within one or more material categories (e.g., Stainless Steel, Engineering Ceramic, or Polyamide).

Type in the search box the material category you are interested in and select the one under the “Category” heading in the drop-down menu.

You can add categories to your filter by selecting them from the “CATEGORIES” section in the sidebar.

You can remove a category from your filter by simply deselecting it from the sidebar.

Explore the various materials that fit your category selection.

Note: Your filter always has to have at least one category selected. Almost every material category on Matmatch has subcategories. You can improve your filter by selecting/deselecting subcategories. Simply, click on the “+” box next to each category to see more.

This feature helps you find the materials that have a designated value for a particular material property (e.g., Thermal conductivity, Yield Strength, or Dielectric Constant).

Type in the search box the property you are interested in and select the one under the “Material Property” heading in the drop-down menu.

Use the histogram in the sidebar under your selected property to specify the minimum and maximum values of the property. The vertical bars represent the number of available materials in our database, and the horizontal slides show the property values.

You can add more properties to your filter by clicking on the “Add a material property +” button and selecting one or more properties from the pop-up menu.

You can remove a property from your filter by simply clicking on the “x” icon next to it.

Some material data sheets may not have the property data that you are filtering for. The search results will only show the materials that have the corresponding data in their datasheets. Matmatch continues to seek all possible property values in order to provide you with the most comprehensive and accurate data.

Explore the various materials that fit your property selection.

Note: For a quick display of the property values in the search results, you can add up to three of your selected properties to the top row of your search results.

This feature helps you find the materials provided by a particular supplier.

Type in the search box the supplier company name you are interested in and select the one under the “Supplier” heading in the drop-down menu.

Once you are on the supplier’s company page, click on “See all materials by this supplier” in the “Materials” section.

This takes you to a search page with the full list of materials provided by this supplier.

You can add suppliers to your filter by either selecting them from the suggested “SUPPLIERS” list in the sidebar or by clicking on the “See all suppliers” button below and selecting them from the pop-up menu.

You can remove a selected supplier from your filter by simply deselecting it from the sidebar.

Explore the various materials that fit your supplier selection.

Note: If your selected supplier(s) provides materials from different material categories, you can improve your filter by deselecting the material categories that you are not interested in from the CATEGORIES list in the sidebar. You can also view materials that do not have existing suppliers on Matmatch by turning on the toggle button next to "Include materials with suppliers" in the SUPPLIERS list.

This feature helps you find the materials that are used in particular application areas or industries (e.g., Automotive, Aerospace, or Packaging).

Type in the search box the application or industry you are interested in and select the one under the “Application” heading in the drop-down menu.

You can add applications/industries to your filter by clicking on the “Add an application +” button in the sidebar under “APPLICATIONS” and selecting them from the pop-up menu.

You can remove an application/industry from your filter by simple clicking on the “x” icon next to it.

Explore the various materials that fit your application selection.

Note: For a deeper application filter, you can click on the “Add an application +” button and select your preferred application areas within a particular industry.

Once you are on a Matmatch search results page, you can add the material properties you are interested in from the sidebar section titled “MATERIAL PROPERTIES”.

To perform a quick comparison between the listed materials for the chosen properties, you can add up to three properties to the top row of the materials list.

This enables you to see the property values for each material as you scroll through the list.

You can also sort the materials list based on the chosen property values in order of highest-to-lowest or lowest-to-highest by simply clicking on the arrows next to the property.

You can remove the “sort” feature by clicking again on the arrows and turning them off.

Note: The “sort” feature works for one property at a time. The materials list will rearrange based on the last selected property. This can be easily noticed by the blue arrow.

Once you are on a Matmatch search results page, select the materials that you are interested in comparing by simply clicking on the checkbox at the right end of each material.

As soon as you select two or more materials, a small box titled “Compare and Visualise” pops-up at the bottom right of your screen.

You can select as many materials as you like.

You can see all your selected materials by clicking on the small arrow in the “Compare and Visualise” pop-up.

If you want to deselect any of the materials, simply click on the “bin” icon next to the material in the pop-up.

When ready, click on the “Compare Materials” button. This will take you to a new “Materials Comparison” page.

Select at least one property you are interested in viewing from the “Available properties” section in the sidebar to see a visual comparison of the materials.

To compare the datasheets of the selected materials, click on “GO TO TEXTUAL COMPARISON” at the top-right end of the page or simply scroll down until you reach the textual comparison.

At the level of the textual comparison, you can scroll left and right to see the property values of all the selected materials.

Once you find your preferred material, simply click on its name to go to the relative material page.

Note: Not all materials have designated values for every property. This depends on the data provided by materials suppliers and data providers. The visual comparison will only display the materials that do have a corresponding value for the selected property. Matmatch continues to seek all possible property values in order to provide you with the most comprehensive and accurate data.

When you are on a material page and want to reach out to the corresponding supplier with a technical question or a request for a quotation, simply click on the corresponding button under “Available suppliers”.

If the material has multiple suppliers, you can simply select the supplier(s) you want to contact by selecting/deselecting their corresponding checkbox.

In order to contact the supplier(s), you need to be a registered Matmatch user.

If you are not a registered user, a pop-up will appear once you click on any of the contact buttons. Simply, create your Matmatch account for free by clicking either on the “Create your account now” button in the pop-up or on the “register” button at the top-right corner of the page.

If you are already a registered user, you should sign into your account before you can contact the supplier(s).

Once you are signed in, you can click on “Ask the supplier a technical question” or “Request a quotation”, fill in the corresponding form, and click on “Send request”.

Note: The supplier’s availability cannot be guaranteed by Matmatch. Matmatch can only help you perform your first contact activity.

When you are on a supplier’s company page and want to reach out to the supplier, simply click on the “Contact Supplier” or “Phone call” button to contact them in your preferred method.

In order to contact the supplier(s), you need to be a registered Matmatch user.

If you are not a registered user, a pop-up will appear once you click on the “Contact supplier” button. Simply, create your Matmatch account for free by clicking either on the “Create your account now” button in the pop-up or on the “register” button at the top-right corner of the page.

If you are already a registered user, you should sign in to your account before you can contact the supplier(s).

Once signed in, if you select “Contact Supplier”, you can fill in the form and click on “Send message”.

If you select “Phone call”, the supplier’s phone number will directly show up.

The name of the contact person can be found right above the contact buttons.

Note: The supplier’s availability cannot be guaranteed by Matmatch. Matmatch can only help you perform your first contact activity.

When you are on a use case page for a particular material(s) and you want to contact the corresponding supplier, simply click on the “Contact Supplier” button.

In order to contact the supplier(s), you need to be a registered Matmatch user.

If you are not a registered user, a pop-up will appear once you click on the “Contact supplier” button. Simply, create your Matmatch account for free by clicking either on the “Create your account now” button in the pop-up or on the “register” button at the top-right corner of the page.

If you are already a registered user, you should sign in to your account before you can contact the supplier(s).

Once signed in, fill in the pop-up form with your information and details and click on “Send”.

Note: The supplier’s availability cannot be guaranteed by Matmatch. Matmatch can only help you perform your first contact activity.

When you are on a material page, you can find its corresponding use case(s) under the “Use Cases” section.

Simply, click on the article you are interested in, and that will take you to the relative content page.

Note: Not all materials have use cases. The availability of use cases is based on the material supplier’s choice to publish them.

When you are on a supplier’s company page, you can find the corresponding use case(s) under the “Use Cases” section.

Simply, click on the article you are interested in, and that will take you to the relative content page.

Note: Not all materials have use cases. The availability of use cases is based on the material supplier’s choice to publish them.