Clive Gifford: Powered by Plants

Cover: 9780711270060 | Powered by Plants | Clive Gifford | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2022

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Powered by Plants explores the world of plants and how their properties are increasingly helping to shape the cutting edge of human technology and design.

Über den Autor

Clive Gifford has travelled to more than 70 countries, climbed rocket launch towers, ridden on robots and flown gliders. He's had more than 200 books published and received nominations for or won Royal Society, School Library Association, Smithsonian and TES awards. He won the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book with Facts 2019 for his title The Colours of History (QED). Clive lives in Manchester, UK.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction

STRUCTURES

Miracle material – Bamboo
Tough Twisters – Vines
Earthquake-Proof Plant – Coconut palm
Super structure – Giant water lily
Crash-Test Citrus – Pomelo
Plant Architects

ROBOTICS

Long-Distance Traveller – Tumbleweed
Speedy Seed-Spinners – Sycamore seeds
Snap-Happy Snacker – Venus flytrap
The Sensitive Shrub – Mimosa pudica
Robo-Plants

ENERGY

The Host With The Most – Kelp
Fuelling cars and creatures – Sugar cane
You Rotter! – Titan arum
Future Fuel – Algae
Sun Worshipper – Sunflower
Wind-Power Plant – Cottonwood tree
Pollution busters

HEALTH

Painkilling plant – Willow tree
Insect-Repelling Ranger – Eucalyptus tree
Plant pharmacy

SUSTAINABILITY

Salty Saviours – Mangrove tree
So Long, Suckers – Bladderwort
Pest Controller of the Plains – Acacia
Prickly customers

MATERIALS

Sticky Solution – Flax
The Friction-Free Fern – Salvinia
An a-Maize-ing Material – Corn
A Fine Fastening Friend – Burdock
Slick Spider-Scoffer – Pitcher plant
Rubber Wonder – Guayule

Mega Materials
Plant innovation lab
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Sachliteratur
Rubrik:	Kinder & Jugend
Thema:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780711270060
ISBN-10:	0711270066
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Gifford, Clive
Illustrator:	Herba, Gosia
Hersteller:	Quarto Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	242 x 284 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Clive Gifford
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.08.2022
Gewicht:	0,596 kg