Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars Nathalia Holt
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Nanoporous Metals for Advanced Energy Technologies Yi Ding and Zhonghua Zhang Springer, 2016 223 pages, $129.00 (e-book $99.00) ISBN 978-3-319-29747-7
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his book focuses on an important part of advanced materials (i.e., nanoporous materials), with an emphasis on the ongoing energy technologies. It encompasses the various nanoporous metals (NPMs) that have been studied in the past and further describes their utilization in energy technologies. The book systematically explains recent energy generation and storage technologies where NPMs play an important role as a constituent entity. The authors cover the utilization of NPMs for fuel cells, supercapacitors, and lithium-battery applications. Chapter 1 introduces NPMs, and chapter 2 gives further in-depth information with respect to mechanistic as well as methodological formation of various NPMs. Chapters on fuel cells (chapter 3), supercapacitors (chapter 4), and lithium
batteries (chapter 5) present work on the importance and utilization of NPMs for these applications. Chapter 3 discusses the importance of NPMs while making a comparison with the existing status of proton-exchange membrane fuel cells and nanoporous gold. The chapter discusses how NPMs form a new class of materials for electrodes. Chapters 4 and 5 on electrochemical energy storage present relevant aspects of electrochemistry. The book explains how NPMs are excellent technological candidates for energy-storage solutions. Apart from the previously mentioned fields of energy application areas, the authors additionally include specific sections on the use of NPMs for other evolving energy technologies, such as the hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions. These fields are of tremendous interest and
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars Nathalia Holt Little, Brown and Company, 2016 352 pages, $16.99 (e-book $2.99) ISBN 9780316338929
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ocket Girls is based on Holt’s interviews of the female “human computers” of the early days of the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). The computers did the calculations, usually by hand, that were needed to help the engineers get the rockets and ultimately spacecraft into space and orbit. The men of the “Suicide Squad” (Frank Malina, Jack Parsons, and Ed Forman), affiliated with the California
Institute of Technology, started experimenting with rockets in the mid-1930s and enlisted one of the wives, Barby Canright, to do their propulsion calculations. The members of the Suicide Squad went on to help found JPL and became famous aeronautical engineers. However, Canright quit when she had a baby, and that was the end of her career as a human computer. Her colleague, Macie Roberts,
are one of the frontier research areas where energy generation by water splitting has been discussed. The book clearly guides the reader with respect to the scope of NPMs in research and development. The book overall demonstrates the status and importance of NPMs in energy technologies. The figures and tables are appropriately chosen and displayed to provi
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