从石器时代到硅时代，材料一直都是人类文明的推进器。材料的使用改变了人类的生活与人类的世界，上世纪尤其如此。在上个一百年里，人类发现并设计的材料总数超过历史以往的任何阶段。 　　From the Stone Age to the Silicon Age, materials have helped drive forward our civilisation. By manipulating materials we have been able to transform our world and our lives - and never more so than in the past century when we have discovered and designed more materials than at any other time in human history.