Ten Materials That Shaped Our World
暫譯: 塑造我們世界的十種材料

Norton, M. Grant

Ten Materials That Shaped Our World
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2025-07-18
  • 售價: $1,400
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 217
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031916468
  • ISBN-13: 9783031916465
  • 相關分類: 材料科學 Meterials

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This Premium Edition of Ten Materials That Shaped Our World is part of a small audiobook pilot program at Springer Nature. It includes audio files accessible online via the Springer Nature MoreMedia App.

This book examines ten materials-flint, clay, iron, gold, glass, cement, rubber, polyethylene, aluminum, and silicon-explaining how they formed, how we discovered them, why they have the properties they do, and how they have transformed our lives. Since the dawn of the Stone Age, we have shaped materials to meet our needs and, in turn, those materials have shaped us.

The fracturing of flint created sharp, curved surfaces that gave our ancestors an evolutionary edge. Molding clay and then baking it in the sun produced a means of recording the written word and exemplified human artistic imagination. As our ability to control heat improved, earthenware became stoneware and eventually porcelain, the most prized ceramic of all. Iron cast at high temperatures formed the components needed for steam engines, locomotives, and power looms-the tools of the Industrial Revolution. Gold has captivated humans for thousands of years and has recently found important uses in biology, medicine, and nanotechnology. Glass shaped into early and imperfect lenses not only revealed the microscopic world of cells and crystals, but also allowed us to discover stars and planets beyond those visible with the naked eye. Silicon revolutionized the computer, propelling us into the Information Age and with it our interconnected social networks, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence.

Written by a materials scientist, this book explores not just why, but also how certain materials came to be so fundamental to human society. This enlightening study captivates anyone interested in learning more about the history of humankind, our ingenuity, and the materials that have shaped our world.

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這本《塑造我們世界的十種材料》的精裝版是Springer Nature小型有聲書試點計畫的一部分。它包含可通過Springer Nature MoreMedia App在線訪問的音頻文件。

本書探討了十種材料——燧石、黏土、鐵、金、玻璃、水泥、橡膠、聚乙烯、鋁和矽——解釋了它們是如何形成的、我們是如何發現它們的、為什麼它們具有這些特性，以及它們如何改變了我們的生活。自石器時代以來，我們一直在塑造材料以滿足我們的需求，而這些材料反過來又塑造了我們。

燧石的破裂產生了鋒利的曲面，給了我們的祖先進化的優勢。塑造黏土然後在陽光下烘烤，產生了一種記錄書寫的手段，並體現了人類的藝術想像力。隨著我們控制熱量的能力提高，陶器變成了石器，最終成為了最珍貴的瓷器。高溫鑄造的鐵形成了蒸汽機、機車和動力織機所需的組件——工業革命的工具。金在數千年來吸引著人類，最近在生物學、醫學和納米技術中找到了重要的用途。早期和不完美的玻璃透鏡不僅揭示了細胞和晶體的微觀世界，還使我們能夠發現肉眼無法看到的星星和行星。矽則徹底改變了計算機，推動我們進入信息時代，並隨之而來的是我們互聯的社交網絡、物聯網和人工智慧。

這本書由一位材料科學家撰寫，不僅探討了為什麼某些材料對人類社會如此重要，還探討了它們是如何成為如此基礎的。這部啟發性的研究吸引了任何對人類歷史、我們的創造力以及塑造我們世界的材料感興趣的人。

作者簡介

M. Grant Norton is Dean of the Honors College and Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials from Imperial College and spent a two-year postdoctoral at Cornell University before joining the Washington State University faculty in 1991. In 2003 and 2004, he was an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Faculty Research Associate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and spent the 1999/2000 academic year as a Visiting Professor at Oxford University. From 2004 to 2007, he held the Herman and Brita Lindholm Endowed Chair. In 2017, he was a participant in the German-American Fulbright Commission Seminar for U.S. Administrators in International Education. He has held Visiting Professor positions at the Chien-Shiung Wu Honors College at Southeast University in Nanjing and as a Global Faculty Fellow at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Professor Norton's research is primarily focused on applications of nanomaterials in clean energy and the life sciences. He is the author or co-author of over 200 papers in the archival literature, several book chapters and patents, two textbooks including Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering, and most recently the popular science books Ten Materials that Shaped our World and A Modern History of Materials: From Stability to Sustainability. He serves on the International Editorial Board of the Journal of Materials Education.

Prior to entering academia, he worked for two major European multinationals: Cookson Group PLC and Heraeus GmbH. He has consulted for a number of companies and organizations including the United States Air Force and REC Silicon, the world's largest producer of silicon materials. From 2009 to 2011, he was on the Board of Directors of the Washington Technology Center (a gubernatorial appointment). He currently serves on several boards including the advisory board for the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service and the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

M. Grant Norton 是華盛頓州立大學榮譽學院的院長及機械與材料工程學院的教授。他在帝國學院獲得材料科學的博士學位，並在康奈爾大學完成了兩年的博士後研究，於1991年加入華盛頓州立大學的教職。2003年和2004年，他擔任美國空軍科學研究辦公室（AFOSR）在俄亥俄州萊特-帕特森空軍基地的教職研究助理，並在1999/2000學年擔任牛津大學的訪問教授。從2004年到2007年，他擔任赫爾曼與布莉塔·林德霍姆捐贈講座教授。2017年，他參加了德美富布賴特委員會為美國國際教育管理者舉辦的研討會。他曾在南京的錢學森榮譽學院擔任訪問教授，並在蒙特雷科技大學擔任全球教學研究員。

Norton 教授的研究主要集中在納米材料在清潔能源和生命科學中的應用。他是超過200篇學術文獻的作者或合著者，還有幾個書章和專利，兩本教科書，包括《陶瓷材料：科學與工程》，以及最近的科普書籍《塑造我們世界的十種材料》和《材料的現代歷史：從穩定性到可持續性》。他擔任《材料教育期刊》的國際編輯委員會成員。

在進入學術界之前，他曾在兩家主要的歐洲跨國公司工作：Cookson Group PLC 和 Heraeus GmbH。他曾為多家公司和組織提供諮詢，包括美國空軍和全球最大的矽材料生產商 REC Silicon。從2009年到2011年，他擔任華盛頓科技中心的董事會成員（由州長任命）。他目前在幾個董事會任職，包括托馬斯·S·福利公共政策與公共服務研究所的諮詢委員會以及ABET的工程認證委員會。

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