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  title info:
    title: Made to measure
    sub title: new materials for the 21st century
  name:
    name part: Ball, Philip
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 1997
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 458 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 themselves and adapt to their environment, that swell and flex like muscles, that repel any ink or paint, and that capture and store the energy of the Sun. He shows how all this is being accomplished precisely because, for the first time in history, materials are being "made to measure": designed for particular applications, rather than discovered in nature or by haphazard experimentation.
  abstract: Now scientists literally put new materials together on the drawing board in the same way that a blueprint is specified for a house or an electronic circuit. But the designers are working not with skylights and alcoves, not with transistors and capacitors, but with molecules and atoms.
  table of contents: Acknowledgments The art of making -- Light talk : photonic materials -- Total recall : materials for information storage -- Clever stuff : smart materials -- Only natural : biomaterials -- Spare parts : biomedical materials -- Full power : materials for clean energy -- Tunnel vision : porous materials -- Hard work : diamond and hard materials -- Chain reactions : the new polymers -- Face value : surfaces and interfaces -- Bibliography -- Figure credits -- Index.
  note: Philip Ball.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-444) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Materials
    topic: Technological innovations
  subject:
    topic: Matériaux
    topic: Innovations
  subject:
    topic: Hochleistungswerkstoff
  subject:
    topic: Matériaux
    topic: Innovations
  classification: TA403 .B2247 1997
  classification: 620.1/1
  identifier: 0691027331 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780691027333 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 97004027
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 970109
    record change date: 20151020055451.0
    record identifier: in00001403310
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng