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Chemical Engineering Books

Between Hope and Fear – A History of Vaccines and Human Immunity
by Michael Kinch
Review
Best Before: The Evolution and Future of Processed Food
by Nicola Temple
Review
The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
by Anna Clark
Review
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
by Eliza Griswold
Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices
by Zhigang Rick Li
Review
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
by Elizabeth Rush
Review
The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport
Review
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
by Andrea Barnet
Review
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds
by Lauren Slater
Review
The Many Lives of Carbon
by Dag Olav Hessen
Review
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World
by Charles C Mann
Review
Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
by Kate Cole-Adams
Review
The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)
by Daniel Raimi
Review
Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia
by Henry Jay Przybylo
Review
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone
by Juli Berwald
Review
Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You
by Catherine Carver
Review
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
by Jennifer A Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg
Review
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
by Brian Merchant
Review
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal
by Jack Ewing
Review
Fuel Cells
by Paul Breeze
Review
The Switch: How solar, storage and new tech means cheap power for all
by Chris Goodall
Review
Introduction to Organic Electronic and Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Second Edition
by Larry R. Dalton, Sam-Shajing Sun
Review
Network Science
by Albert-László Barabási
Review
Science Calling: Climate, Environment, Energy: (there is hope)
by Vladimir Panjkovic
Review
Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth
by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Review
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
Review
Advanced Functional Materials (Advanced Material Series)
by Ashutosh Tiwari, Lokman Uzun
Review
Photonics and Electronics with Germanium
by Kazumi Wada and Lionel C. Kimerling
Review
The Handbook of Medicinal Chemistry: Principles and Practice
by Simon Campbell
Review
OLED Fundamentals: Materials, Devices, and Processing of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
by Daniel J. Gaspar and Evgueni Polikarpov
Review
Studyguide for Sea-Level Science: Understanding Tides, Surges, Tsunamis and Mean Sea-Level Changes
by David Pugh
Review
Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World
by Seth M. Siegel
Review
Applied Minds – How Engineers Think
by Guru Madhavan
Review
Handbook of Polymer Crystallization
by Ewa Piorkowska and Gregory C. Rutledge
Review
Hydrogels in Cell-Based Therapies
by William L. Murphy, Bing Xu, Sarah Heilshorn, Roanne Jones, Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy, Rein Ulijn, Bernice Wright, Che J. Connon, and Ian W. Hamley
Review
Falling Behind?: Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent
by Michael S. Teitelbaum
Review
Nanomaterials for Medical Applications
by Zoraida Aguilar
Review
The Future of the Chemical Industry by 2050
by Rafael Cayuela Valencia
Review
Handbook of Biodegradable Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
by Andreas Lendlein and Adam Sisson
Review
Fundamental Principles of Polymeric Materials
by Christopher S. Brazel and Stephen L. Rosen
Review
Handbook of Plasticizers
by George Wypych
Computer Modeling for Injection Molding: Simulation, Optimization, and Control
by Huamin Zhou
Review
Biomass-Based Biocomposites
by Vijay Kumar Thakur
Review
Biomimetic Biomaterials: Structure and Applications
by Andrew J. Ruys
Review
Organic Light-emitting Diodes (OLEDs): Materials, Devices and Applications
by Alastair Buckley
Review
Peptide Synthesis and Applications (Methods in Molecular Biology)
by Knud J. Jensen, Pernille Tofteng Shelton, Søren L. Pedersen
Review
Advanced Thermoforming: Methods, Machines and Materials, Applications and Automation
by Sven Engelmann
Review
Liquid Surfaces and Interfaces: Synchrotron X-ray Methods
by Peter S. Pershan and Mark Schlossman
Review
Environmentally-Friendly Polymer Nanocomposites
by Suprakas Sinha Ray
Review
Biomaterials and Medical Tribology: Research and Development
by J. Paulo Davim
Review
Dendrimers, Dendrons, and Dendritic Polymers: Discovery, Applications, and the Future
by Donald A. Tomalia, Jørn B. Christensen, and Ulrik Boas
Review
Biosensor Nanomaterials
by He Li, Ipsita A. Banerjee, Jagdish Singh, Songjun Li
Review
Fuel Cells: Current Technology Challenges and Future Research Needs
by Noriko Hikosaka Behling
Review
Principles of Asymmetric Synthesis, 2nd Edition
by Robert Gawley and Jeffrey Aube
Review
Materials Science of DNA
by Jung-II Jin and James Grote
Review
Problems in Structural Inorganic Chemistry
by Wai-Kee Li, Yu-San Cheung, Kendrew Kin Wah Mak, and Thomas Chung Wai Mak
Review
Experiment!: Planning, Implementing and Interpreting
by Oivind Andersson
Review
Nuclear and Radiochemistry
by József Kónya and Noémi M Nagy
Review
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
by Richard Dawkins
Review
The Impact Factor of Scientific and Scholarly Journals: Its Use and Misuse in Research Evaluation
by Tibor Braun
Review
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by Dan Fagin
Review
Supercritical Water
by Yizhak Marcus
Review

Articles

Perkin Medal winner reflects on her role in the science of keeping cool
2018 Ig Nobel Prizes
Talent spotting: secrets for a successful job interview in industry
Why lithium-ion may rule batteries for a long time to come
Research Can Reduce Costs and Time in the Production of Polymer Parts
Talent isn’t keeping women away from science. Sexism, stereotypes and bad science are
This week in science history: A pioneering biochemist and feminist dies
Access Denied: why is the UK turning away overseas engineering talent?
Career Ladder: Andrew Davis
The cartographer of cells
Former HP UK CEO widens EngineeringUK appeal
Project SEED scholar Tiffany Adams
Bioengineer Ting Zhu is building the mirror-image of nature’s protein synthesis machinery
Trends in Lithium Electrolytes
Thinking points for career bliss
Boosting Performance in Lithium-Ion Batteries: An Interview with Paraclete Energy’s CEO
EuroScience Open Forum: sharing science, and a bit of career advice
Jose Rodriguez: Structural savant is imaging proteins that clump to better understand diseases such as Alzheimer’s
Cathy Mulzer: Materials maven has powered up covalent organic frameworks and other polymers
Joseph Moran: Origins explorer is seeking the chemistry that sparked life on Earth
Darryl Boyd: Polymers pioneer is stitching sulfur into molecular strands to create advanced optics
‘Overpopulation’ and the environment: three ideas on how to discuss it in a sensitive way
Is Your Degree Worth It? Engineering Education and Job Satisfaction
What is nothing? Martin Rees Q&A
The public loves to hear from experts – if we present them in the right way
AI and quantum physics are searching for life-saving drugs
Yuval Noah Harari on what 2050 has in store for humankind
Q&A: Patricia Fara on the British women scientists who broke barriers
This doctor risked her career to end Flint’s water-poisoning crisis
Native Hawaiians Turn to Ancient Traditions to Save Their Reefs
2018 SciFinder Future Leaders
Professor’s Work Could Lead to More Fuel-Efficient Tires
Superstars of STEM: Beating bacteria at its own game
A Talk with a Lithium Expert
Design Student Pairs 3D Printing, Knitwear for Innovative Fashions
The women engineers who fought for professional recognition
Experts and industry leaders on how to solve the skills crisis
Academic writes 270 Wikipedia pages in a year to get female scientists noticed
The ‘Ada Lace’ Books Will Get Girls Interested in STEM
The big problem with big data? Without theory, it’s just garbage
Hitchhiking His Way to Better Drug Delivery
The scholarship of teaching and learning is thriving
Interview With Reshma Saujani of Girls Who Code
The NHS needs a new breed of innovator for the information age
Entrepreneur rethinks lithium-ion batteries with an eye toward storing renewable energy
From Defiled to Wild–Can a Spent Coal Mine Be Reborn as a Nature Conservation Center?
Empowering a sustainable world
Q&A: Karl Sigmund on the Vienna Circle
Innovative Batteries Require ‘Contrarian Thinking’
Niki Bayat: She invented materials that can heal eyes by sealing up traumatic injuries

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