The making of graphene
Description of chemical vapour deposition to make large area graphene samples
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Dr. Sachin Shanbhag, FSU Department of Scientific Computing, NSF CAREER Winner 2010
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A description of the science and a guide to making a hydraulic crane. This presentation won the prize for the best entry from students for whom English is not their first language in the 2016 Kroto Prize for Innovative Use of Technology in Science Le....
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Ways to make space travel faster using physics concepts. This presentation was third in the 2016 Kroto Prize for Innovative Use of Technology in Science Learning.
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A very well-explained description of the theory of lift and of how the energy-sapping wingtip vortices are created in aircraft flight. This talk was the runner-up in the 2016 Kroto Prize for Innovative Use of Technology in Science Learning.
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A (fairly) light-hearted explanation of the process of in vitro fertilisation in humans. Winner of the Kroto Prize for Innovative Use of Technology in Science Learning 2016.
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A magnetic tunnel junction is a device with two magnets separated by a very thin non-magnetic barrier. The two magnets can be aligned parallel or antiparallel. The electrical resistance of this devices depends on the alignment. This video illustrates....
More details | Watch nowC60+ in space – a 28-year detective story about the Diffuse Interstellar Bands – Part 4
The early (mid 1990s) work on the electronic spectroscopy was carried out by John Maier's group, trapping C60+ in a neon matrix in this apparatus.
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John Maier's team at the University of Basel solved the riddle of C60+ in 2015. In this brief view Colin Byfleet looks at the unique apparatus used in John's work.
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The presentation the solution to this long-standing puzzle occurred at a most serendipitous moment. John Maier, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel reveals the momentous details.
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John Maier, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel, describes the journey from the prediction of C60+ in 1987, through tentative assignment of its electronic spectrum by Radioastronomy, measurement in a neon-matrix and finally, in....
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Rosie Bolton describes the importance of this huge project and some of the interesting problems which needed to be solved in its planning and implementation.
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Naresh Dalal is interviewed by Harry Kroto about his eventful life in Chemical Physics.
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Kant, in possibly his most celebrated essay, defined the Enlightenment as: Man’s emergence from his self-imposed period of immaturity. This immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. Without the freedom t....
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Mark Hindmarch talks about our understanding of how we explain the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang.
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Roy Darlington explains the attractions of the remarkably simple Stirling engine
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Is there life in your PC?
How do we keep things from deteriorating?
Norman Billingham talks to Jonathan Hare about the science and ethics of preservation and conservation.
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Fixated on Nitrogen
Sussex University has always supported unusual, interdisciplinary and innovative faculties. A good example of this was the Nitrogen Fixation Centre. Jeff Leigh was part of this exceptional work who's aim was to discover how nature uses nitrogen to cr....
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askFSU 1 : speed of light, tachyons, solar sails, and black holes
Joining Philip Schlenoff is Dr. Jeff Owens, from the Physics department at Florida State University, to answer some physics and astrophysics-related questions!
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