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The making of graphene
Description of chemical vapour deposition to make large area graphene samples
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Free Electron Lasers
Video prepared by final year undergraduate chemical physics students at Edinburgh University (2018)
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Video presentation by final year chemical physics undergraduates at Edinburgh University
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Dr. Sachin Shanbhag – NSF CAREER Winner 2010
Dr. Sachin Shanbhag, FSU Department of Scientific Computing, NSF CAREER Winner 2010
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Hydraulic Claw Arm
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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An Engineer’s Guide to Space Travel
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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Wingtip Vortices
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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Test Tube Babes
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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The Krebs Cycle
Matt Johnson explains the Krebs Cycle, its discovery by a University of Sheffield Nobel Prize winner and its role in endurance sports such as cycling.
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Quantum Spin Hall effect in graphene
The quantum spin Hall effect is a topological state of matter characterized by sustaining gapless chiral edge states together with an insulating bulk. This phase can be triggered out by applying strong magnetic fields in a graphene sample
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Graphene
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....
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C60+ in space – a 28-year detective story about the Diffuse Interstellar Bands – Part 5
It seems likely that C60+ will act as a stable site for a wide variety of adducts and that these entities will contribute to the Diffuse Interstellar Bands. John Maier's group in Basel is looking for species like C60(Fe)+.
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C60+ 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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C60+ in space – a 28-year detective story about the Diffuse Interstellar Bands – Part 3
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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C60+ in space – a 28-year detective story about the Diffuse Interstellar Bands – Part 2
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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C60+ in space – a 28-year detective story about the Diffuse Interstellar Bands – Part 1
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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The Square Kilometre Array
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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Ian McKellen @ Florida State University – 2009
Ian McKellen speaks at FSU about his acting career and some of the fascinating things that he has learned through theater and personal experience.
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Naresh Dalal – a distinguished scientist and one of Midnight’s Children
Naresh Dalal is interviewed by Harry Kroto about his eventful life in Chemical Physics.
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The Enlightenment is Under Threat and Lindau Alumni for Humanitarian Action (LAHA) Can Save It
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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Gravitational waves and the early universe
Mark Hindmarch talks about our understanding of how we explain the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang.
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The Rev. Stirling and heat engines
Roy Darlington explains the attractions of the remarkably simple Stirling engine
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