Challenge of Materials Site Review

Take a look around you. Your fingers are touching a plastic keyboard. Your computer is on a desk or table held together by metal-alloy screws. Materials may be the forgotten science, but its importance can't be ignored. The Challenge of Materials Web site explores what's happening in the hidden world of materials.

Discover what an aluminum molecule looks like and how ultra-strong materials are made at the Challenge of Materials site.

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/challenge_of_materials.aspx