化学的非常规入门：一位纳米科学家的动人叙述

Infectious enthusiasm for the chemicals of everyday life pervades a nanoscientist’s moving narrative Mark Miodownik CHAIN REACTION | What’s new to say about the chemistry of everyday life? Quite a lot, it turns out, as pharmaceutical nanoscientist Ijeoma Uchegbu makes clear in her new book, Chain Reaction. For a narrative focused on day-to-day life, there is re- markably little that is commonplace about Chain Reaction—it is unlike any other book on this sub- ject. In this review, I’ve tried to elucidate the story’s special attributes without deconstructing them, because—like the chemistry it explores—it really is more than the sum of its parts. The book starts with Uchegbu’s observation that “chemistry is ev- erywhere and everywhere is chemistry.” …