这套系列丛书共四卷，覆盖了十几门学科，如机电 、化工、材料、信息、网络、生物技术、环境科学等。选材力求遵循新颖全面、理论与应用并重、旨趣性强三个原则。

Part1 Chemical Engineering 化学与化工

1.The Power of Plastic 塑料电源

2.Probing into Your Future 扫描探针显微镜探知未来

3.With an Eye to the Future 人工角膜，放眼未来

4.Greener Plastics from a Greenhouse Gas 利用二氧化碳制造“绿色”塑料

5.Adhesive Allows Painless Pemoval of Bandages 无痛取下胶带

6.Ink 油墨

7.Deconstructing Food Allergies 解构食物过敏

8.Fraudulent Molecules 欺骗性分子

9.Polymers and Processes 聚合物及其处理过程

10.Modeling Improvements Take the Place of Breakthrough Catalyst Materials 改进催化材料

11.Catalytic Cracking 催化裂解

12.New Separation Approach Saves Catalyst and Energy 新的分离方法节省摧化剂和能量

13.An Extracting Science 植物回收重金属

14.Chemistry in the Service of Art 艺术品修复的化学方法

Part2 Materials 材料

15.Infinitersimal Carbon Structures May Hold Giganic Potential 极微小的碳结构可能具有巨大的潜力

16.Creating Nanophase Materials(1) 制造纳米相材料（1）

17.Creating Nanophase Materials(2) 制造纳米相材料（2）

18.Surface Analysis Becomes Simpler,Faster,and More Versatile 表面分析更简单、更快捷、手段更多

17.Creating Nanophase Materials(2)

 制造纳米相材料（2）

 Nanophase Metals

We set out to make nanophase palladium and copper and to study their strength as a function of grain size.To gauge the strength of the metals,we measured their hardness,testing how easily they could be deformed.As expected,the strength of pure copper increased as its average grain size decreased.When the grains were 50 nanometers in diameter,the copper was twice as hard as usual.Six-nanometer grains-the smalles size we could readily make in our synthesis chamber--yielded copper that was five times harder than normal.