Concrete cloth, Self-cleaning concrete, Chocolate Engineering :), Materials that change behavior completely with just addition of one more layer of atoms, Material that is 99.8% air (Blurs around edges when viewed. The author equates it to holding a piece of sky !).
This is a effervescent romp through common materials that surround the author as he sits on his deck drinking coffee.
Most chapters read like a story going through the history of the material, chemical composition, structure and its relevance to our everyday life. (No chemical equations if this makes a difference).
It brings to home an appreciation of the fact that structure of the bonds inside a material matter just as much as composition.
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