Introduces 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.


Format Häftad Omfång 472 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Princeton University Press Utgivningsdatum 1999-10-03 ISBN 9780691009759