Materials Engineering: Bonding, Structure, and Structure-Property Relationships by Susan Trolier-McKinstry and Robert E.
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Fifty Materials That Make the World Ian Baker Springer, 2018 271 pages, $49.99 (e-book $39.99) ISBN 978–3-319–78766–4
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his book could be considered a “materials science crash course”— a concise, semi-technical review of 50 materials of significance to mankind. A combination of metals, plastics, and various naturally occurring materials such as stone and wood are included, and the decision on what to include must have been a difficult one for the author. Surprisingly, materials such as water, air, and soil are left out. The pre-set limit of 50 materials and perhaps the historical context spanning many centuries are the two factors that likely precluded the inclusion of many more recently developed modern materials such as high-temperature superconductors, high-entropy
alloys, semiconductors, nanomaterials, and various energy-storage materials, which already greatly influence our lives. The book contains numerous references for those wanting to dig deeper, including many Internet links as footnotes. The coverage focuses on applications and the practical impact of various materials on our lives, including tidbits of descriptive information and interesting historical context, uncovering little-known background information about the discovery and development of various materials. Also included are basic economics information (production scale by country) and geography data on the occurrence of specific material resources. The reader will learn facts that
Materials Engineering: Bonding, Structure, and Structure-Property Relationships Susan Trolier-McKinstry and Robert E. Newnham Cambridge University Press and Materials Research Society, 2018 630 pages, $85.61 (e-book $75.09) ISBN 978–1-107–10378–8
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he book Materials Engineering has a crystal structure approach to bonding, structure, and how they relate to the properties of materials. However, it does not describe materials processing and microstructure or materials characterization. The subject is covered in 30 chapters (630 pages). The authors use common raw and industrial materials to explain the symmetry relationships in crystals and molecules. After the introductory chapter, the next three chapters describe the primary raw materials on earth: minerals, water, atmospheric air, and fossil fuels. The
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bonding between different atoms and ions is discussed in the third chapter and is immediately related to hardness, melting points, and boiling point topics in the fourth chapter. Chapters 5 and 6 discuss the geometry and morphology of crystals, crystal systems, and the theoretical density of crystalline solids. The connecting line of thought is always the crystal structure, or its absence in amorphous materials. There are several figures in these introductory chapters describing different crystal structures and molecules and pointing to the importance of symmetry before its formal definition in Chapter 7.
are often less known yet significant (e.g., that most of the gold is found in seawater or that platinum is about 10 times more common in the earth’s crust tha
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