Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Five materials that will change the world...

Five materials that will change the world...  The last two of these were new to me: shrilk and stanene.  Advances in materials science has been spectacular over my own lifetime, though I've noted before that most people seem to be largely unaware of them.  I suspect that's because the materials advances have generally been a component of some other piece of more visible technology.  Take an iPhone, for example: dozens of advances in materials were required before an iPhone could be possible...

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