"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. 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.
This book is written in the same engaging manner as Ball's
popular book on chemistry, "Designing the Molecular World," and it
links insights from chemistry, biology, and physics with those from
engineering as it outlines the various areas in which new materials
will transform our lives in the twenty-first century. The chapters
provide vignettes from a broad range of selected areas of materials
science and can be read as separate essays. The subjects include
photonic materials, materials for information storage, smart
materials, biomaterials, biomedical materials, materials for clean
energy, porous materials, diamond and hard materials, new polymers,
and surfaces and interfaces.
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