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100 1 $aBall, Philip,$d1962-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93097576
245 10 $aMade to measure :$bnew materials for the 21st century /$cPhilip Ball.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $a458 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [429]-444) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: The Art of Making --$gCh. 1.$tLight Talk: Photonic Materials --$gCh. 2.$tTotal Recall: Materials for Information Storage --$gCh. 3.$tClever Stuff: Smart Materials --$gCh. 4.$tOnly Natural: Biomaterials --$gCh. 5.$tSpare Parts: Biomedical Materials --$gCh. 6.$tFull Power: Materials for Clean Energy --$gCh. 7.$tTunnel Vision: Porous Materials --$gCh. 8.$tHard Work: Diamond and Hard Materials --$gCh. 9.$tChain Reactions: The New Polymers --$gCh. 10.$tFace Value: Surfaces and Interfaces.
520 $aMade 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.
520 8 $aHe 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.
520 8 $aBut the designers are working not with skylights and alcoves, not with transistors and capacitors, but with molecules and atoms.
650 0 $aMaterials$xTechnological innovations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010100504
852 00 $boff,eng$hTA403$i.B2247 1997