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 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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-691-00975-9
- EAN: 9780691009759
- Produktnummer: 8434148
- Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 472 S.
- Masse: H23.7 cm x B15.4 cm x D4.2 cm 691 g
- Gewicht: 691
Über den Autor
Philip Ball is an associate editor for physical sciences with Nature. He contributes regular articles on all fields of science to the academic and popular press, and is the author of Designing the Molecular World (Princeton) and The Self-Made Tapestry (Oxford).
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