Material Science


Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction
Materials Science and Engineering: A First Course
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor (Princeton Science Library)
Mechanical Behavior of Materials: Engineering Methods for Deformation, Fracture, and Fatigue
Material Science & Metallurgy
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering
Physical Metallurgy Principles (The Pws-Kent Series in Engineering)
Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Christian Humberg
Since 1963, LEGO bricks have been manufactured from acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer - ABS copolymer for short - a plastic with a matte finish. It is very hard and robust - import criteria for a children's toy. Laboratories in Switzerland and Denmark regularly test the quality of the ABS. The plastic is distributed to factories as granules rather than in liquid form. These grains of plastic are heated up to 232ºC and converted into a molten mass. Injection moulding machines weighing up ...more
Christian Humberg, 50 Years of the Lego Brick

Solid, liquid, transient materials, to which controlling their structure is still fiction, but possible.
Edilson Gomes de Lima

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