Material Matters: New Materials in Design
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 – and with every material featured, the book stresses the relevance of physical material properties.
Each 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.
Material examples 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 revolutionize the field of electronics.
The book also includes the work of cutting edge designers Marc Newson, Ross Lovegrove, Apple, NASA, Intel, Ron Arad and household names.