Besides being the lightest solid known to man, the aerogel has another remarkable property: it’s thermal insulation.With other words its ability to act as a barrier against heat. Aerogels are so good at this that you can put the flame of a Bunsen burner on one side of a piece of aerogel and a flower... Continue Reading →

For better or worse, all I could think about when I travel by plane is kerosene, and the remarkable trick those mid-19th century inventors used to transform crude oil: distillation. The story of Kerosene started many centuries ago. The Persian physician and alchemist Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Rizi also known as Rhazes, who lived roughly between... Continue Reading →

Energy is all around us. It’s responsible for making everything happen, whether you want to use any household appliance, take a walk through the park, drive your car across town, or do anything that involves movement or activity. Energy is the ability to do work and work in this context is when a force acts... Continue Reading →

Copper was the first metal used by man and still remains very much essential for technology development in the future. No other metal is able to beat Copper. It all started when Copper made the Bronze Age possible some 5000 years ago, which lasted for at least 2000 years after being replaced with Iron Age,... Continue Reading →

I love to talk about Copper. I must say that before to become materials science engineer I was very much in touch with electronics and initialy I wanted to become electronics engineer but it was Copper the metal that fascinated me since the beginning when I created my first PCBs for my electronic circuits. So... Continue Reading →

On 26th of December -2004 thousands of tourists mostly Europeans and Americans had flocked to the beaches of Sri Lanka, Indonesia and particularly on the island of Phuket in Thailand to escape the winter chill in a tropical paradise. In that morning at 8 am tourists were walking on the beach when they noticed something... Continue Reading →

It is often said that humans are the most intelligent beings on planet earth and because of these outstanding abilities we should be able to control everything. At some point with the technology development we indeed can control a lot of things, but we will NEVER be able to control the Nature. That’s simply impossible.... Continue Reading →

In the Part 1 of The Concrete Story I told you about how the steel reinforced concrete has become the most multipurpose building material of all time: And it it is, but with one very important condition: **Once the building is complete, it must regularly maintained. If not, well... then you get what you pay... Continue Reading →

For its entire existence human race always needed and will forever need 2 essential things in order to survive: Food and Shelter. The first humans were hunter-gatherers, their only source of food was obtained through hunting and fishing. Then humans learned that food can also be produced, so they became farmers. Sometime about 10,000 years... Continue Reading →

It all started when people discovered that Iron can react with Carbon and by controlling the process something amazing is happening. This is how we start getting steel from iron. IRON with around 5% of the Earth’s crust and as the 6th most common element in the universe, iron is a highly abundant and immensely... Continue Reading →