Chemistry:
Materials Project:
The chemistry of materials has shaped our past, present, and will shape our future. It has shaped our past because chemicals make up the world. They are the basic building blocks our world. If iron was not hard to make, it would not be a useful material. It is its high melting point that makes difficult to extract from ore, and at the same time mean that it it is very solid at room temperature, making it a useful material for tools. In the same way, the technologies of the world are driven by what is difficult to make. If graphene were easy to manufacture, we would have a new generation of materials, and a new generation
The structure of a material is dependent on four types of properties: atomic, molecular, macroscopic, and macroscopic. Atomic structure is about what atoms are in the material. If the material is an element like Gold or Silver, than the properties of the material are the properties of the atoms in it. However, if the material is composed of molecules, like salt, than its properties can be dependent on its structure: Salt is ionic, and when dissolved in water, its ions split. The microscopic properties of a molecule are to be traced back to its molecular and atomic properties. They mostly include crystal structure, which segways into macroscopic properties. These are the properties that we see. They include color, opacity, crystalinity, and annything else that could be detected by touch or sight.
The structure of a material is dependent on four types of properties: atomic, molecular, macroscopic, and macroscopic. Atomic structure is about what atoms are in the material. If the material is an element like Gold or Silver, than the properties of the material are the properties of the atoms in it. However, if the material is composed of molecules, like salt, than its properties can be dependent on its structure: Salt is ionic, and when dissolved in water, its ions split. The microscopic properties of a molecule are to be traced back to its molecular and atomic properties. They mostly include crystal structure, which segways into macroscopic properties. These are the properties that we see. They include color, opacity, crystalinity, and annything else that could be detected by touch or sight.
This project was about the classes, properties, and molecular structure of materials. The assignment was to take the properties of a chemical or substance, explain them, and then invent a product that utilizes the properties of the material we chose. The material I chose was the broad class of ionic materials. Rather than explain more, I will let my paper speak for itself:
Intelligence Squared
This project was a debate. We were given the subject of either