Q&ALiving in a material world

摘要

How did the Materials Library come about? It's one of those projects that was a hobby. I used to have all these materials in my drawer and when undergraduates would come in and say "I'm thinking of doing a PhD" or "what's materials science like?" I'd fish something weird out and show it to them and I always noticed that it's a much better starting point for any conversation about research. It's weird how [materials] have this magic talisman-ic quality about them.