| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: The Art of Making | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | Light Talk: Photonic Materials | 15 |
| Ch. 2 | Total Recall: Materials for Information Storage | 63 |
| Ch. 3 | Clever Stuff: Smart Materials | 103 |
| Ch. 4 | Only Natural: Biomaterials | 143 |
| Ch. 5 | Spare Parts: Biomedical Materials | 209 |
| Ch. 6 | Full Power: Materials for Clean Energy | 244 |
| Ch. 7 | Tunnel Vision: Porous Materials | 282 |
| Ch. 8 | Hard Work: Diamond and Hard Materials | 313 |
| Ch. 9 | Chain Reactions: The New Polymers | 344 |
| Ch. 10 | Face Value: Surfaces and Interfaces | 384 |
| Bibliography | 429 |
| Figure Credits | 445 |
| Index | 447 |
