Introduction to: The New Science of Strong Materials
Introduction to the new edition of The New Science of Strong Materials by J. E. Gordon (Princeton University Press, 2005).
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A capacity for change
Extended version, with references, of an article on supercapacitors in MRS Bulletin 37, 798 (2012).
Reviews: INVISIBLE: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
“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
“Supramolecular chemistry” (with Jean-Marie Lehn), in The New Chemistry (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Contributions in The Science Book
Contributions in The Science Book (ed. P. Tallack) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001).
Materials of the Future
“Materials of the Future”, in The Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (UNESCO, 2002). www.eolss.com
Entries in Within The Stone
Entries in Within The Stone, a selection of essays and texts to accompany images of minerals by photographer Bill Atkinson (BrownTrout, 2004).
Molecular Biomimetics
“Molecular Biomimetics”, chapter in Encyclopedia of Supramolecular Chemistry (Marcel Dekker, 2004).
Entries in The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought
Entries in The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (2nd Edn) (Fontana, 1999).