Made to measure : new materials for the 21st century /
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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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1997]
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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.