A capacity for change
Extended version, with references, of an article on supercapacitors in MRS Bulletin 37, 798 (2012).
Extended version, with references, of an article on supercapacitors in MRS Bulletin 37, 798 (2012).
“Ball leads us on a very fun, largely chronological journey through invisibility, beginning with myth and early magicians, ending with quantum physics, and stopping along the way at Newton, Leibniz, microscopy, photography, spiritualism, B movies, and science fiction. He is lucid and interesting on every topic he touches, from the ghost in “Hamlet” to those unseen extra dimensions posited by string theory.” Kathryn Schultz, New Yorker (here)
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“Supramolecular chemistry” (with Jean-Marie Lehn), in The New Chemistry (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Contributions in The Science Book (ed. P. Tallack) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001).
“Materials of the Future”, in The Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (UNESCO, 2002). www.eolss.com
Entries in Within The Stone, a selection of essays and texts to accompany images of minerals by photographer Bill Atkinson (BrownTrout, 2004).
“Molecular Biomimetics”, chapter in Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry (Marcel Dekker, 2004).
My article on “Climate change” from the February 2000 issue of Prospect is reprinted in the 2005 compilation Thinking Allowed: The Best of Prospect 1995-2005 (Atlantic, 2005).
Entries in 30-Second Quantum Theory (ed. B. Clegg). Ivy Press, New York, 2014.