WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ceramic - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic

    Ceramic material is an inorganic, metallic oxide, nitride, or carbide material. Some elements, such as carbon or silicon, may be considered ceramics. Ceramic materials are brittle, hard, strong in compression, and weak in shearing and tension. They withstand the chemical erosion that occurs in other materials subjected to acidic or caustic ...

  3. Hybrid material - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_material

    Typical examples include bone and nacre. Development of hybrid materials. The first hybrid materials were the paints made from inorganic and organic components that were used thousands of years ago. Rubber is an example of the use of inorganic materials as fillers for organic polymers.

  4. List of art media - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_art_media

    Arts media are the materials and tools used by an artist, composer or designer to create a work of art, for example, "pen and ink" where the pen is the tool and the ink is the material. The following lists types of art and the media each uses. Architecture

  5. Nanomaterials - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanomaterials

    In ISO/TS 80004, nanomaterial is defined as the "material with any external dimension in the nanoscale or having internal structure or surface structure in the nanoscale", with nanoscale defined as the "length range approximately from 1 nm to 100 nm". This includes both nano-objects, which are discrete pieces of material, and nanostructured ...

  6. Material culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_culture

    Material culture is the aspect of culture manifested by the physical objects and architecture of a society. The term is primarily used in archaeology and anthropology, but is also of interest to sociology, geography and history. [1] The field considers artifacts in relation to their specific cultural and historic contexts, communities and ...

  7. Metamaterial - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamaterial

    A metamaterial (from the Greek word μετά meta, meaning "beyond" or "after", and the Latin word materia, meaning "matter" or "material") is any material engineered to have a property that is rarely observed in naturally occurring materials. They are made from assemblies of multiple elements fashioned from composite materials such as metals ...

  8. Nanocomposite - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanocomposite

    The reinforcing material can be made up of particles (e.g. minerals), sheets (e.g. exfoliated clay stacks) or fibres (e.g. carbon nanotubes or electrospun fibres). The area of the interface between the matrix and reinforcement phase(s) is typically an order of magnitude greater than for conventional composite materials.

  9. Fiber art - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_art

    Fiber art. Detail of design for Bluebell or Columbine printed art fabric, 1876, by William Morris. Example of yarn bombing in Montreal, 2009, by fiber artist Olek. Fiber art ( fibre art in British spelling) refers to fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components, such as fabric or yarn.