Material matters : new materials in design

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Material Matters: New Materials in Design explores the fascinating world of materials, surveying characteristics, properties and new applications of materials in diverse fields, from sustainable resources to medicine, architectural design to aeronautical engineering and interior design to 'haute-culture' and fashion.

Material Matters profiles the most fascinating materials developed in recent years with full page profiles and colorful illustrations, examples include Aerogel or 'frozen smoke'--used by NASA it is the lightest solid on earth at 95% air. Amongst the detailed profiles are texts that discuss the fusion between science, art and design in the creation of these substances and their importance within contemporary living, sustainability and expanding technologies. The book also includes the work of cutting edge designers Marc Newson, Ross Lovegrove, Apple, NASA, Intel, Ron Arad and household names.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 10)
• Metals (p. 16)
• Ductile Iron (p. 20)
• Additive Layer Manufacturing (p. 21)
• *Shaping with Magnetic Force - The Gravity Stool (p. 22)
• Brass (p. 24)
• Eco Brass (p. 25)
• Antimicrobial Copper (p. 26)
• Copper Tape (p. 26)
• Soft Circuits (p. 27)
• Recycled Copper (p. 28)
• Aluminium Foils (p. 30)
• Blackwrap (p. 30)
• Technical Aluminium Foil (p. 31)
• Aluminium Tape (p. 31)
• Superform Aluminium (p. 32)
• Aluminium Honeycomb (p. 35)
• *Cutting Away-Milling Metal Forms (p. 36)
• Tin (p. 38)
• Stainless Steel Thread (p. 39)
• Conductive Tape (p. 40)
• Conductive Clad Fibres (p. 41)
• *Inflated Steel-Oskar Zieta (p. 42)
• Liquid Metal (p. 44)
• Single Crystal Nickel Superalloys (p. 46)
• Thermo-bimetals (p. 48)
• Microlattice (p. 50)
• Shape Memory Alloys (p. 51)
• *Reactive Environments - Hylozoic Ground (p. 52)
• Nitinol (p. 54)
• Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys (p. 55)
• Magnetic Shape Memory Foam (p. 55)
• Metal Foam (p. 57)
• Titanium Foam (p. 58)
• Hollow Sphere Structures (p. 59)
• Glasses (p. 60)
• *Turning Sand to Glass - The Solar Sinter (p. 66)
• Super Thin Eco glas (p. 68)
• Large-Scale Sheet Glass (p. 68)
• Insulated Glazing (p. 69)
• Inflated Glass (p. 70)
• Borosilicate Glass (p. 71)
• *Light as Material - James Carpenter Design Associates (p. 72)
• Tempered Glass (p. 74)
• Self-Cleaning Glass (p. 74)
• Super-strong Glass (p. 75)
• Electrochromic Glass (p. 76)
• Thermoelectric Glass (p. 76)
• Thermochromic Glass (p. 77)
• Channel Glass Systems (p. 78)
• View Control Film (p. 78)
• Luminous Glass (p. 79)
• Recycled Glass (p. 80)
• Recycled Glass Foam Granulate (p. 80)
• Glass Foam (p. 81)
• Aerogel (p. 82)
• Stardust (p. 83)
• Commercially Available Aerogel (p. 84)
• Insulating Capillary Glass (p. 85)
• Mirror (p. 86)
• *Telescope Mirrors-The Largest Glass Reflectors in the World (p. 88)
• Hot Mirror (p. 92)
• Antiqued Mirror (p. 92)
• Reflective Tape (p. 93)
• Decorative Glass Spheres (p. 94)
• Laser Etched Glass (p. 95)
• Optic Fibre (p. 96)
• Internet Cables (p. 97)
• Glass Wool (p. 98)
• 3-D Glass Fabric (p. 98)
• Microscopic Glass Flakes (p. 99)
• Lustrous Glass Paint (p. 99)
• Cast Glass (p. 100)
• Crystal Glass (p. 101)
• *Designing with Crystal - Swarovski Crystal Palace (p. 102)
• Bioglass (p. 104)
• Vitrified Glass (p. 105)
• Liquid Glass (p. 105)
• Ceramics (p. 106)
• Terracotta (p. 111)
• Kaolin (p. 112)
• Porcelain (p. 113)
• Moulded Tiles (p. 114)
• Zirconium Embedded Tiles (p. 115)
• Microwavable Ceramics (p. 115)
• Non-fire Ceramics (p. 116)
• Alumina Advanced Ceramic (p. 118)
• Silicon Nitride (p. 119)
• Aluminium Nitride (p. 120)
• Piezoelectric Ceramics (p. 120)
• Polymers (p. 130)
• Carbon Fibre (p. 134)
• Injection Moulded Plastics (p. 136)
• Nylon (p. 138)
• Additive Layer Manufactured Polymers (p. 139)
• Polyurethane (p. 140)
• *Casting From Flat Sheets - Faceture Vases (p. 142)
• Polystyrene (p. 144)
• Not so Expanded Polystyrene (p. 144)
• Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) (p. 146)
• Recycled Polyester (p. 149)
• *Material for Everything - Sugru (p. 150)
• Recycled Plastics (p. 152)
• Sonic Fabric (p. 153)
• Rubber (p. 154)
• Charcoal Filter (p. 154)
• Mushroom Packaging (p. 155)
• *Making Your Own Plastic - A Workshop For Designers (p. 156)
• Bioplastic (p. 158)
• Polylactic Acid (PLA) (p. 159)
• Water Soluble PVA (p. 159)
• Newspaper Wood (p. 161)
• Wood Polymer Composites (p. 162)
• Insulating Seaweed (p. 162)
• Cork Polymer Composite (p. 163)
• *Cork Textiles-Yemi Awosile (p. 164)
• Bendy Wood (p. 166)
• Honeycomb Paper (p. 167)
• Liquid Crystal Polymer (p. 168)
• Liquid Crystal Polymer Fibre (p. 169)
• White Board Paint (p. 169)
• Live Edge Acrylic Glass (p. 170)
• Hydrogels (p. 170)
• Glass-like Resin (p. 171)
• Spray-on Fabric (p. 172)
• Heat Fusible Yarn (p. 173)
• Spacer Textiles (p. 175)
• Instantly-hardening Fabric (p. 176)
• Polycaprolactone (p. 178)
• Piezoelectric Plastics (p. 179)
• Electroactive Polymers (p. 179)
• *Shape-Changing Architecture-Shapeshift (p. 180)
• Composities (p. 182)
• Light-reflecting Concreate (p. 186)
• Transparent Concrete (p. 187)
• Super-Strength Concrete (p. 188)
• Graphic Patterned Concrete (p. 189)
• Creacrete (p. 190)
• 3-D Concrete Tiles (p. 191)
• Pigmented Concrete (p. 192)
• Stone-like Tiles (p. 193)
• Concrete Foam (p. 193)
• Rice Cement (p. 193)
• *Concrete Shelters-Concrete Canvas (p. 194)
• Self-Healing Concrete (p. 196)
• Bricks made from Waste Products (p. 197)
• Catalytic Plaster (p. 198)
• Slim Bricks (p. 198)
• Glass-filled Nylon 6/6 Fibreglass (p. 199)
• *Carbon Fibre Composites - Materials for Racing (p. 200)
• Ferrofluids (p. 202)
• Rheonetic Magnetic Paste (p. 204)
• Soft Magnets (p. 204)
• Optic Fibre Fabric (p. 205)
• Paper made from stone (p. 205)
• Stiff Fabric Origami (p. 206)
• *The Idea of a Tree - Mischer' Traxler (p. 208)
• Futures (p. 210)
• *Designing Hybrid Materials-Bread LTD (p. 214)
• Gold Nanoparticles (p. 216)
• Graphene (p. 217)
• *Catalytic Clothing - Nano-Scale Pollutant Removal (p. 218)
• Palladium Glass (p. 220)
• Light Emitting Near Infrared Material (p. 221)
• *Dressing Meat for Tomorrow -In-Vitro Meat (p. 222)
• Piezo Rubber (p. 224)
• Lab-on-a-Stick (p. 224)
• Manufactured Silk (p. 225)
• *Bodies as energy Cells-Afterlife (p. 226)
• Glossary (p. 228)
• Resources (p. 232)
• Author Biographies (p. 236)
• Acknowledgements (p. 237)