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发表于2024-05-06
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A New York Times Bestseller
An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science
Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it does? These are the sorts of questions that Mark Miodownik is constantly asking himself. A globally-renowned materials scientist, Miodownik has spent his life exploring objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as concrete cloth, uncovering the fascinating secrets that hold together our physical world.
In Stuff Matters, Miodownik entertainingly examines the materials he encounters in a typical morning, from the steel in his razor and the graphite in his pencil to the foam in his sneakers and the concrete in a nearby skyscraper. He offers a compendium of the most astounding histories and marvelous scientific breakthroughs in the material world, including:
The imprisoned alchemist who saved himself from execution by creating the first European porcelain.
The hidden gem of the Milky Way, a planet five times the size of Earth, made entirely of diamond.
Graphene, the thinnest, strongest, stiffest material in existence—only a single atom thick—that could be used to make entire buildings sensitive to touch.
From the teacup to the jet engine, the silicon chip to the paper clip, the plastic in our appliances to the elastic in our underpants, our lives are overflowing with materials. Full of enthralling tales of the miracles of engineering that permeate our lives, Stuff Matters will make you see stuff in a whole new way.
Mark Miodownik is Professor of Materials and Society at University College London and the Director of the UCL Institute of Making. He was chosen by The Times as one of the top 100 most influential scientists in the UK. Miodownik is a broadcaster known best for giving the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures broadcast on BBC4. Miodownik is also a writer on science and engineering issues, a presenter of documentaries and a collaborator in interactive museum events.
比较浅,不过写得挺有意思的
评分作者居然有种诗人气质,太意外了。尤其是纸那一章体现的淋漓尽致,单独拿出来绝对想不到作者是个材料学家。全书在对过去时代的怀念和落入批判现代生活的窠臼间找到了平衡。
评分通俗易懂
评分还不错,作者写作水平还可以提高
评分讲述各种材料背后的物质结构,以解释它的特性来由!比如不锈钢为什么不生锈,玻璃为什么是透明的,人造器官是怎么做到的,金刚石为什么无坚不摧,果冻里面是什么结构,瓷器为什么坚硬而耐热…
材料在我们的身边无处不在,用作者的话来说,如果去掉你身边的各种材料,你就只能光溜溜的飘在空中发抖……但我们往往忽视材料的重要性,或者对他们视而不见,人类文明的时代,从石器时代、青铜时代、铁器时代,一直到现在的“硅”时代,都是因为一种新材料出现而促成的。作者...
评分阿拉丁有一盏油灯,他轻轻擦拭,住在里面的精灵就会迸出来帮助他。 幼时对这类故事深信不疑,艳羡平凡的物品竟有神奇的力量。古往今来,关于物品之神的传说层出不穷。灶台、米糠罐、打火匣,朴素的生活投影,蕴含着各地文化的寄托。而科学家马克·米奥多尼克写的《迷人的材料...
评分 评分阿拉丁有一盏油灯,他轻轻擦拭,住在里面的精灵就会迸出来帮助他。 幼时对这类故事深信不疑,艳羡平凡的物品竟有神奇的力量。古往今来,关于物品之神的传说层出不穷。灶台、米糠罐、打火匣,朴素的生活投影,蕴含着各地文化的寄托。而科学家马克·米奥多尼克写的《迷人的材料...
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