Condensed concepts

 Every day we encounter a diversity of materials: liquids, glass, ceramics, metals, crystals, magnets, plastics, semiconductors, foams, … Th...

The Ising model is emblematic of “toy models” that have been proposed and studied to understand and describe emergent phenomena. Although or...

 Discovering new materials with functional properties is hard, very hard. We need all the tools we can from serendipity to high-performance ...

Recently I bought a small wire of NiTinol to have fun with and use in demonstrations to kids. This video gives a spectacular demonstration a...

There is a chasm between finding a material that has a desirable property that is key to a technological application and producing a commerc...

One way to answer this question is to look at the reports prepared every decade by the National Academies in the USA. I have recently been l...