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Book SynopsisIntroduces an area of scientific research: materials science. This book describes how scientists are inventing 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.
Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998 "Let me state up front that Made to Measure ... is an outstanding book. Written for the general reader, it will also greatly appeal to specialists. If you are a solid-state physicist, chemist, materials scientist, engineer, science policy maker, or keen amateur scientist, then sell your shirt to buy it."--Colin Humphreys, New Scientist "Philip Ball offers a panorama of 1,001 new materials for the next century... His survey would make a good textbook for an introductory course in materials science. For the rest of us, the sheer range of examples is impressive."--Jon Turney, Financial Times "Philip Ball writes about the very modern science of materials... [He] is full of fascinating insights, and especially on the photonic side of things he really opens the reader's eyes... [His] book is the first to be entirely devoted to this field. That task has been very well accomplished, and the book is warmly recommended."--Robert W. Cahn, European Journal of Physics
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Art of Making3Ch. 1Light Talk: Photonic Materials15Ch. 2Total Recall: Materials for Information Storage63Ch. 3Clever Stuff: Smart Materials103Ch. 4Only Natural: Biomaterials143Ch. 5Spare Parts: Biomedical Materials209Ch. 6Full Power: Materials for Clean Energy244Ch. 7Tunnel Vision: Porous Materials282Ch. 8Hard Work: Diamond and Hard Materials313Ch. 9Chain Reactions: The New Polymers344Ch. 10Face Value: Surfaces and Interfaces384Bibliography429Figure Credits445Index447
