Artifice and artefacts : 100 essays in materials science
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書誌事項
Artifice and artefacts : 100 essays in materials science
Institute of Physics Publishing, c1992
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内容説明・目次
内容説明
For more than a quarter of a century Robert Cahn has been writing articles for Nature and other esteemed journals. Written in the author's distinctive style, Artifice and Artefacts: 100 Essays in Materials Science presents a compilation of 100 articles and reviews chosen to represent a broad range of subjects that map the growth of materials science during this period. The book provides an informative and entertaining record of scientific development. Topics range from the fractal analysis of fracture surfaces on flint to the scientific detection of frauds in the labeling of wine. The articles themselves have largely been reproduced as they first appeared, promoting insight into the ideas prevalent at the time. This unique collection appeals to physical and materials scientists as well as chemists, geologists, and biologists.
目次
Nanostructured materials. Fractal dimension and fracture. Smooth tritium for laser function. In vino veritas. Self-propagating high temperature synthesis. Strategies to defeat brittleness. Limits to Coulomb's law. Searching for supermagnets. A soft superionically conducting lower mantle? The genesis of a void lattice. Vacancies in nickel-aluminium and other alloys. Crystal defects and melting. Beaded bubbles. Metal bites metal. Rock fabrics. Glass alloys. Looking at the hydrogen economy. Crystallite coalescence. How to design an alloy. Ordering in films. New superlattices. Brittle fracture by thermal shock. Anisotropy at surface tension. When is epitaxy possible? Passage of ions through crystals. The legacy of Xenophon. Polymorphs and Amorphs. Microstructure analysed. Phase energies. Harmony of the spheres. Homo or Hetero? New light on epitaxy. Sputtering. Sticks and carrots. Powder metallurgy: New techniques and applications. Ultrahard magnets. A final limit to superheating. Penny plain, tuppence coloured. The supermodulus syndrome. Novel model for cavity lattices. Order in disorder. The power of paradox. Between the devil and the deep blue sea. Solar energy storage and conversion by hydrogen cycle. Topology of crystal grains. Super-ionic conductors. Figures of merit.
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