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This chapter looks at three very different methods of making materials that have become essential to our modern lives—pulling single crystals of silicon, drawing ultra-pure optical fibers, and blowing thin sheets of polyethylene—as well as a fourth method, 3D printing, which offers enormous potential for more sustainable manufacturing processes
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Norton, M.G. (2023). Made to Measure. In: A Modern History of Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23990-8_4
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