Materials: A Very Short Introduction Paperback / softback
by Christopher (Professor Emeritus and Senior Professorial Fellow, University of Edinburgh) Hall
Part of the Very Short Introductions series
Paperback / softback
Description
The study of materials is a major field of research that supports and drives innovation in technology.
Using modern scientific techniques, materials scientists and engineers explore and manipulate materials, and create new ones with remarkable strength and extraordinary optical and electrical properties.
In this Very Short Introduction, Christopher Hall looks at a wide range of materials, from steel, wood, and rubber, to gold, silicon, and graphene, describing how materials are used, how their properties arise from their internal structure, and how useful and novel things are made from them.
He concludes by looking at how the global scale of materials consumption now threatens the goal of sustainability.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages, Approximately 20 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/10/2014
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- ISBN:9780199672677
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:160 pages, Approximately 20 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/10/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199672677
