Made to Measure : : New Materials for the 21st Century /

Made to Measure : : New Materials for the 21st Century / / Philip Ball.

Made to Measure introduces a general audience to one of today's most exciting areas of scientific research: materials science. Philip Ball describes how scientists are currently inventing thousands of new materials, ranging from synthetic skin, blood, and bone to substances that repair themselv...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Ball, Philip,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©1997
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.) :; 17 color illus. 61 halftones 83 line drawings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION The Art of Making
  • CHAPTER ONE Light Talk: Photonic Materials
  • CHAPTER TWO Total Recall: Materials for Information Storage
  • CHAPTER THREE Clever Stuff: Smart Materials
  • CHAPTER FOUR Only Natural: Biomaterials
  • CHAPTER FIVE Spare Parts: Biomedical Materials
  • CHAPTER SIX Full Power: Materials for Clean Energy
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Tunnel Vision: Porous Materials
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Hard Work: Diamond and Hard Materials
  • CHAPTER NINE Chain Reactions: The New Polymers
  • CHAPTER TEN Face Value: Surfaces and Interfaces
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • FIGURE CREDITS
  • INDEX
  • Plates

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