The book 'Material Matters: New Materials in Design' discusses the vast
range of materials that are available to us today, and highlights the
advances predicted to prove seminal in the future.
The six chapters are divided by chemical composition—Metals, Glasses, Ceramics, Polymers, Composites and material Futures.
material featured is presented with relevant manufacturer information,
material properties and current and potential applications and includes
the websites of manufacturers and research institutes, making this a
handy reference book for the designer.
include the newly developed metallic ‘microlattice’, now the lightest
solid known on earth; Dow Corning’s ‘Deflexion’, a fabric capable of
instantly hardening and Graphene, a material which, at 200 times the
strength of structural steel despite being only one atom thick, has the
potential to revolutionise the field of electronics.
Philip Howes, Materials Scientist and Zoe Laughlin, Creative Director of The Institute of Making, provide explanations of the basic chemical structure of materials—what makes a glass a glass and why not all polymers are plastics. Their discussion of the potentialities of new materials embraces disciplines as disparate as aerospace engineering and medical research, in addition to offering explanations to everyday material conundrums.
Book: Material Matters: New Materials in Design
Authors: Phillip Howes, Zoe Laughlin
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing