Material Fabrication Books

Plastic: An Autobiography
by Allison Cobb
Review
Handmade
by Anna Ploszajski
Review
The Fabric of Civilization
by Virginia Postrel
Review
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
by Mark Miodownik
Review
Material Value: More Sustainable, Less Wasteful Manufacturing of Everything from Cell Phones to Cleaning Products
by Julia L. F. Goldstein
Review
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
by Paul Steinhardt
Review
Flexible Glass: Enabling Thin, Lightweight, and Flexible Electronics (Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Coatings Technology)
by Sean M. Garner
Review
Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices
by Zhigang Rick Li
Review
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
by Brian Merchant
Review
Advanced Functional Materials (Advanced Material Series)
by Ashutosh Tiwari, Lokman Uzun
Review
Photonics and Electronics with Germanium
by Kazumi Wada and Lionel C. Kimerling
Review
OLED Fundamentals: Materials, Devices, and Processing of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
by Daniel J. Gaspar and Evgueni Polikarpov
Review

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How Fonts Affect Learning and Memory
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Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs
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Creative engineers ‘needed like never before’ in race for net zero
User-centric design ‘has to be in the DNA of engineers’
COMPETITION: RSA Student Design Awards 2021-22
Why programming is key to engineering communication
Citizen Science is Changing People’s Lives — This Project Explores How It Happens
How to Make the Most of Online Courses to Boost Your Career
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Making blended learning work
To Solve the Environmental Crisis, We Must Foster the Power to Imagine
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Major teaching reform in England will erode the intellectual basis of the profession
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