Best Materials science Videos
「Materials science」下面有42部被不同的人、在不同月份推荐过的视频。挑的时候先看对象:入门1部,适合还没学过的人;进阶8部,适合已经懂术语的人;普通向33部,按兴趣就能看;更硬的0部,留给想看推导或细节的人。这一类数量最多的是演示,所以它们的共同点是先看到做成了什么,再决定要不要追细节。常出现的频道包括Veritasium、Applied Science、SmarterEveryDay。目录给这个主题划的范围是:Materials: metals, alloys, ceramics, composites, transparent wood, semiconductors materials, superconductors, nanotechnology, crystals, fabrication of new materials, strength of materials.如果只看三部,就从《Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams》开始,它负责把问题讲出画面;然后看《Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED》,换一种讲法或例子;最后看《Revolutionary Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun》,留给已经有基础的人。页面按每页24部切开,顺序看的是被推荐跨越了多少个月,不是播放量。每条标题下面那一句是这部片子自己的内容说明,用来区分它在讲定义、过程、演示还是观点。点进去能看到推荐原话、原文链接和适合谁看。看的时候把强烈推荐当成有人明确叫你去看,把引用当成只是拿来举例,把批评留下来对照,不要把每条评论都当成同一力度。

Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams
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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
Veritasium tells the story of how Shuji Nakamura and others made the blue LED, long thought nearly impossible.

Revolutionary Paint: How to Make Surfaces Stay Cool in the Sun
Tech Ingredients shows how to make a homemade radiative cooling paint, with a custom liquid panel that cools below ambient temperature outdoors.

The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
Veritasium explains how Penrose tilings and quasicrystals overturned the belief that 5-fold symmetry and non-periodic crystals were impossible, including an interview with Paul Steinhardt.

Making Infrared Cooling Paint From Grocery Store Items (w/Novel CaCO₃ Microsphere Synthesis)
NightHawkInLight shows how to make radiative sky cooling paint from grocery and hardware store materials, including a novel calcium carbonate microsphere synthesis.

How To Make Infrared Cooling Paint (Electricity Free Air Conditioning)
NightHawkInLight shows how to make ultra-white radiative paint that cools surfaces below ambient temperature without electricity.

Smelting Iron in Africa (A DEMONSTRATION)
A 105-minute film of a West African smith family in Burkina Faso smelting iron from ore, from making charcoal and building the kiln to forging tools.

Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps - Smarter Every Day 86
Smarter Every Day films Prince Rupert's drops, tempered glass drops, in high-speed slow motion at 130,000 fps.

Nokia Morph Concept (long)
A concept video from Nokia Research Center and Cambridge Nanoscience Center showing Morph, a flexible, self-cleaning, shape-changing phone imagined through nanotechnology.

The Liquid Metal Battery: Innovation in stationary electricity storage
MIT's Donald Sadoway presents the liquid metal battery as a design for grid-scale stationary electricity storage, at an Imperial College London event in 2018.

Etching small patterns in Glass
Huygens Optics experiments with etching tiny patterns in glass, covering hydrofluoric acid risks, buffered oxide etch, photoresist and chromium masks, and laser-induced etching.

Was Roman Concrete Better?
Practical Engineering compares modern concrete with that of the Roman Empire, covering modern techniques like roller compacted concrete and water-reducing admixtures.

The Ridiculous Engineering Of Jet Engines
Veritasium explains how jet engines run hotter than their components' melting points, using cooling air and single-crystal superalloy turbine blades.

What is Concrete?
Practical Engineering gives a short introduction to concrete, covering the difference between concrete and cement, the ingredients, and reinforcement.

Glass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass
Ben Krasnow of Applied Science shows how to make small batches of specialty glass with minimal equipment, including designing and making photochromic glass.

A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning. (2011)
Corning's 2011 concept video showing a future where specialty glass surfaces and touchscreens are woven into everyday life.

MOLTEN GLASS VS Prince Rupert's Drop - Smarter Every Day 285
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day explores molten glass and Prince Rupert's drops with a glass artist, including a process that freezes the moment glass shatters and an artisan who makes the drops.

For the undying 9/11 MORONIC JET FUEL ARGUMENT
A short video from a blacksmith, who heats and bends steel to rebut the claim that jet fuel could not weaken the steel in the World Trade Center.

Demo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)
Ben Krasnow of Applied Science demonstrates an X-ray fluorescence gun that measures chemical composition, tears it down, analyzes its failure, and discusses a new XRF technology appearing on eBay.

The Material Science of Metal 3D Printing
Real Engineering explains the materials science behind metal 3D printing, including crystal structure, laser sintering, and why printed parts develop fatigue cracks.

Making uranium glass
NileRed makes radioactive uranium glass from scratch, showing the chemistry involved and the green fluorescence under a blacklight.

DIY Scanning Electron Microscope - Overview
Ben Krasnow shows the first image from his home-built scanning electron microscope, after months of work, and walks through how the parts operate together.

The Snowflake Myth
Veritasium visits snowflake expert Dr Ken Libbrecht, who grows designer snowflakes in the lab.

I Grew Real Spider Silk Using Yeast
The Thought Emporium shows how they engineered a yeast strain to produce real spider silk, after more than two years of lab work and many failures.