Chemistry, Nano & Materials Books

Introduction to Computer Holography
by Kyoji Matsushima
Review
A Dominant Character
by Samanth Subramanian
Review
Clean: The New Science of Skin
by James Hamblin
Review
Photonics and Fiber Optics
by Tarun Kumar Gangopadhyay, Pathik Kumbhakar and Mrinal Kanti Mandal
Covid-19
by Debora MacKenzie
Review
Rebel Cell: Cancer, Evolution and the Science of Life
by Kat Arney
Review
Introduction to Quantum Electronics and Nonlinear Optics
by Vitaliy V. Shtykov and Sergey M. Smolskiy
Review
Principles of Medical Imaging for Engineers
by Michael Chappell
Review
A Furious Sky
by Eric Jay Dolin
Review
Modern Optics Simplified
by Robert D. Guenther
Review
Catching the Worm
by William C. Campbell
Review
Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
by Lucy Jane Santos
Review
Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils
by David Farrier
Review
Analogia
by George Dyson
Review
The Future Earth
by Eric Holthaus
Review
Futureproof
by D. Asher Ghertner, Daniel M. Goldstein and Hudson McFann
Review
Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
by Debora L. Spar
Review
Power to the People
by Audrey Kurth Cronin
Review
Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
by Mario Alejandro Ariza
Review
Optical Communications
by Martin Sibley
Review
The Great Secret
by Jennet Conant
Review
Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis
by Erin Brockovich
Review
Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
by Daniel Mathews
The Dance of Life: Symmetry, Cells and How We Become Human
by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Roger Highfield
Review
Land of Wondrous Cold
by Gillen D'Arcy Wood
Review
The Age of Genomes
by Jon Luoma, Steven Monroe Lipkin
Review
Successful Aging
by Daniel J. Levitin
Review
Fighting Pollution and Climate Change
by Richard W. Emory, Jr.
Review
The Story of More
by Hope Jahren
Review
Hacking Planet Earth
by Thomas M. Kostigen
Review
Outbreaks and Epidemics
by Meera Senthilingam
Sex Matters
by Alyson J. McGregor
Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens
by Muhammad H. Zaman
Review
When Blood Breaks Down
by Mikkael A. Sekeres
Tales of Two Planets
by John Freeman, Margaret Atwood, Arundhati Roy, et al
The Green New Deal and Beyond
by Stan Cox
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
by James Nestor
Handbook of Lasers
by Marvin J. Weber
Epidemics and Society
by Frank M. Snowden
The Future We Choose
by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
Entangled Life
by Merlin Sheldrake
Review
Ingredients
by George Zaidan
Review
Samsung Rising
by Geoffrey Cain
Review
The Ocean Reader
by Eric Paul Roorda
Review
The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
by Thane Gustafson
Review
The World According to Physics
by Jim Al-Khalili
Review
Some Assembly Required
by Neil Shubin
Review
Pharma
by Gerald Posner
Review
Optical WDM Networks: From Static to Elastic Networks
by Devi Chadha
Review
The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are
by Libby Copeland
Review
The Angel and the Assassin
by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Review
Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 100 Incredible Microbes
by Marilyn Roossinck
Review
Nano Comes to Life
by Sonia Contera
Review
The Rules of Contagion
by Adam Kucharski
Review
Immortality, Inc
by Chip Walter
Review
Hi-Fi: The History of High-End Audio Design
by Gideon Schwartz
Review
Introduction to Optical Microscopy
by Jerome Mertz
Review
Antimony, Gold, and Jupiter’s Wolf: How the elements were named
by Peter Wothers
Review
Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America
by Anthony Ryan Hatch
Review
Chasing the Invisible
by Thomas Grogan MD
Review
Embracing Sufficiency
by Joseph Stadtmiller
Review
Life Changing: How Humans are Altering Life on Earth
by Helen Pilcher
Review
Optical Inspection of Microsystems Second Edition
by Wolfgang Osten
Review
Skin Deep: Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race
by Gavin Evans
Review
Cook, Taste, Learn: How the Evolution of Science Transformed the Art of Cooking
by Guy Crosby
Review
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
by Greta Thunberg
Review
Wavefront Shaping for Biomedical Imaging
by Joel Kubby, Meng Cui, Sylvain Gigan
Review
Holography: Principles and Applications
by Raymond K. Kostuk
Review
Transcendence
by Gaia Vince
Review
Inevitably Toxic
by Brinda Sarathy, Vivien Hamilton and Janet Farrell Brodie
Review
Insane Mode
by Hamish McKenzie
Review
Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir
by Callum Roberts
Review
How to Grow a Human
by Philip Ball
Review
Computer Holography
by Tomoyoshi Ito and Tomoyoshi Shimobaba
Review
Harold Edgerton: Seeing the Unseen
by Deborah Douglas, Gus Kayafas, Ron Kurtz
Review
Superbugs: the race to stop an epidemic
by Matt McCarthy
Review
Women In Their Element
by Annette Lykknes, Brigitte Van Tiggelen
Review
Miracle Cure
by William Rosen
Review
Blowout
by Rachel Maddow
Review
Optical Effects in Solids
by David B. Tanner
Review
Thermodynamic Weirdness
by Don S. Lemons
Review
Superior: The Return of Race Science
by Angela Saini
Review
Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table
by Kit Chapman
Review
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
by Bill Bryson
Review
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
by Azra Raza
Review
After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration
by Holly Jean Buck
Review
Imaging Optics
by Joseph Braat and Peter Török
Review
Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America
by Kate Pickert
Review
Graphene Photonics
by I-Tan Lin, Jia-Ming Liu
Review
More From Less
by Andrew McAfee
Review
The Remarkable Life of the Skin
by Monty Lyman
Review
More Things in the Heavens
by Michael Werner and Peter Eisenhardt
Review
The Big Ones
by Dr Lucy Jones
Review
Coal and Empire: The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America
by Peter A. Shulman
Review
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
by Naomi Klein
Review
Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic
by Mike Jay
Review
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
by Robert M. Hazen
Review
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long
Review
In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
by Bill Streever
Review
The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
by Susan Hockfield
Review
Alexander von Humboldt: How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature
by Maren Meinhardt
Review
The Geography of Risk
by Gilbert M. Gaul
Review
Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines
by Tony Juniper
Review
We Are the Weather
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Review
The Environment: A History of the Idea
by Paul Warde, Libby Robin and Sverker Sörlin
Review
Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
by Walter Brown
Review
Lightwave Communications
by George C. Papen and Richard E. Blahut
Review
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
by Richard Preston
Review
Can Science Make Sense of Life?
by Sheila Jasanoff
Review
Neurophotonics and Biomedical Spectroscopy
by Lingyan Shi and Robert R. Alfano
Review
The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future
by Andrew Blum
Review
Every Breath You Take: A User’s Guide to the Atmosphere
by Mark Broomfield
Review
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
by Jon Gertner
Review
Applied Nanophotonics
by Sergey V. Gaponenko and Hilmi Volkan Demir
Review
Vortex Laser Beams
by Alexey P. Porfirev, Victor V. Kotlyar
Review
The Science of Breaking Bad
by Dave Trumbore and Donna J. Nelson
Review
Advantage Play: Technologies that Changed Sporting History
by Steve Haake
Review
Nanocrystals in Non-Volatile Memory
by Writam Banerjee
Review
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
by Mark Miodownik
Review
Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age
by Sue Armstrong
Review

Articles

Nanofibers put a new spin on COVID-19 masks
Alternative materials could shrink concrete’s giant carbon footprint
Multipass Spectroscopy Method Enables Disease-Detecting Breath Test
Motorized sensors aim to improve and speed up early-stage disease diagnosis
Terahertz laser leaves the lab
Imago BioSciences raises $80M to advance blood cancer therapy
Optical clock sets new constraints on dark matter
New approach to make chiral amines from internal olefins revealed
This Squishy 3D-Printed Human Heart Feels Like the Real Thing
Decoy could halt this deadly (and spreading) virus
Your pee could be the golden ticket to a greener world
Coronavirus Antibodies Good. Machine-Made Molecules Better?
The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is up to 90% effective, according to interim data
Gold nanoparticles turn the spotlight on drug candidates in cells
Surface chemistry discovery points way to cheaper water splitting
Graphene-based superlattice plays host to new family of quasiparticles
Gel heals skin with less scarring and then vanishes
Red Blood Cells Deliver Nanoparticles to Provoke Immune Response to Lung Metastases
Aerogel and hydrogel stay cool together
Graphene-based memristor is ideal for artificial neural networks, say researchers
Electrically tuneable network learns fast
Stretchable Fiber-Optic Sensors for Skin-Like Sensation
Sustainable Supercapacitors Made of Carbon and Water
Pearls may provide new information processing options for biomedical, military innovations
Rippling polymer sheets flex like muscles
DNA ‘super-enhancers’ offer target for endometriosis treatment
Rapid Scale-Up of Commercial Ion-Trap Quantum Computers
Implantable Biodegradable Sensor Measures Gases Inside The Body
Microchip produces laser light of different colours
Tunable graphene oxide–polymer membrane mimics biological membranes
Bringing drugs to the brain with nanoparticles to treat neurodegenerative diseases
Single cancer cell samples may boost custom treatment
New battery recycling process lowers energy usage and greenhouse gases
Inhalable Nanobody Therapy Deactivates SARS-CoV-2
g-wave superconductor comes into view
Heat-powered desalination technology gets boost from 2D material
Aluminum nanoparticles take heat out of carbon dioxide removal
Credit-card-sized ‘microlab’ detects COVID-19 in minutes
Redox-less electron transfer in ‘weird’ material could allow powerful batteries
We found a way to turn urine into solid fertiliser – it could make farming more sustainable
Natural Material Repurposed for Ecological Energy Storage
Dozens of toothy drug delivery devices fit on a Q-tip
Microtube implosions could produce megatesla magnetic fields
Just the right pressure can turn graphene into diamond
Antibody-doped gold nanoparticles provide a rapid COVID-19 test
Spider Silk Is Stronger Than Steel. It Also Assembles Itself.
Treating multiple sclerosis with an antigen-specific cell therapy
Self-watering soil could transform farming
New analysis method can lead to better cancer drugs
Malaria test is as simple as putting on a bandage

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