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The coming of materials science /

The Coming of Materials Science both covers the discipline of materials science, and draws an impressionistic map of the present state of the subject. The first chapter examines the emergence of the materials science concept, in both academe and industry. The second and third chapters delve back int...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cahn, R. W. (Robert W.), 1924-2007
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : New York : Pergamon, 2001.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Pergamon materials series ; v. 5.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Preface to second printing
  • Introduction
  • The emergence of disciplines
  • Precursors of materials science
  • The virtues of subsidiarity
  • The escape from handwaving
  • Characterisation
  • Functional materials
  • The polymer revolution
  • Craft turned into science
  • Materials in extreme states
  • Materials chemistry and biomimetics
  • Computer simulation
  • The management of data
  • The institutions and literature of materials science
  • Epilogue.