This app is a visual summary of the life-size table of Mendeleev which was built in the spring of 2011 at MTM, the department of Materials Engineering of the KU Leuven. This project was initiated in our department in the fall of 2009 and was realized by the efforts and ingenuity of all of its members and members of the research group of Professor Binnemans. We decided to build this table as we believe that the information contained in the periodic table is one of the corner stones of material science. To see a close-up of every element in the table, the items on display, and the story behind it, click on that element in the table under the home button. You will discover the beauty and the different nature of the elements and you will perhaps get an appreciation of the wonder that everything in nature is composed of less than 100 elementary building blocks.