Aimed at Key Stages 3 and 4, this book investigates how the use of materials developed in the latter half of the 20th century - mainly for the space programme - will affect us as this century progresses. Included are strong and flexible materials such as Mylar and Teflon and superstrength metals such as titanium.

 

This book is part of a book series called 21St Century Science .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Hachette Children's Group .

Robin Kerrod was an experienced author of children's information books and a winner of the COPUS science book prize.