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Materials science: the rule of three that guides its development

18 Sep 2023 Robert P Crease

From cement and glass to plastics and rare earths, materials come in all shapes and sizes. Hardly surprising, then, that materials-science institutions aren’t easy to pin down, explains Robert P Crease

Montage of a collection of recyclable materials
Complex topic Materials come in all shapes, types and sizes – and so do the journals, labs and institutes covering them. (Courtesy: iStock/SolStock)
“To paraphrase Shakespeare,” Daniel Ucko told me, “some periodicals are born as materials scie

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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