Wonder World of Materials

Wonder World of Materials? is newly opened gallery at Regional Science City, Lucknow in which one can get information about the different kind of materials. The ?Wonder World of Materials? gallery portrays different fascinating aspects of Material Science namely: fundamentals of material science, polymers and plastics, electronic material, semiconductors and superconducting materials, sensors, world of nanotechnology, structural materials, industrial materials, optics, surface and cold chemistry, explosive materials, functional materials etc. It also showcases how the material science has progressed over the years from ancient era to modern times. It addresses issues like what are natural and manmade materials and how they are classified? Such is the fascinating story of materials that ages also it was discovered that clay could be fired to make pots and this discovery was revolutionary; so was the more recent discovery that clay also contains the substance that runs our computers.