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Making cheaper solar cells using crisp packet technology

by James Kingsley
Making cheaper solar cells using crisp packet technology
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 11 years ago | 1526 views
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A demonstration of how using crisp packet manufactiring techniques can help prouduce cheaper solar energy.

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00:20:00

Material Characterization: It Takes A Lot of Tools to Solve the Problem

by Jonathan Howard Christian
Material Characterization: It Takes A Lot of Tools to Solve the Problem
for 22 and upwards,
Postgraduate presentations | 22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 2664 views
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Jonathan Christian discusses what it means to be a material/physical chemist. He shows how a physical chemist characterizes materials using his research into Chromium 3+ polyoxometalates.

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Mesoporous silica nanomaterials and silica coated nanomaterials-Application in optical imaging and treatment of cancer related angiogenesis

by Srivani Veeranarayanan
Mesoporous silica nanomaterials and silica coated nanomaterials-Application in optical imaging and treatment of cancer related angiogenesis
for 18-22 and upwards,
Postgraduate presentations | 18-22 and upwards | 10 years ago | 1834 views
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Srivani describes in her PhD dissertation lecture how silica nano-materials can be used in both the imaging and treatment of cancer-related angiogenesis.

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Microscopy and Materials

by Mark Rainforth
Microscopy and Materials
for 18-22 and upwards,
Postgraduate presentations | 18-22 and upwards | 11 years ago | 1336 views
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How microscopy is used to improve materials

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00:27:00

Model Synthesis for Ceramics: Superconductors, Magnets and Others

by Karl Muller
Model Synthesis for Ceramics: Superconductors, Magnets and Others
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 9 years ago | 1272 views
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The discovery of superconductivity in hole doped La2CuO4 was motivated by the interest to find this phenomenon in an oxide.  After the discovery near 35 K, copper oxides with transition temperatures of up to 131 K at normal pressure were found, i.e.....

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00:47:00

Nanomaterials as growth effectors and imaging agents in rice plants and its scope in plant science

by Remya Nair
Nanomaterials as growth effectors and imaging agents in rice plants and its scope in plant science
for 18-22 and upwards,
Postgraduate presentations | 18-22 and upwards | 10 years ago | 2169 views
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Ramya talks about the ways in which nanomaterials can affect rice-plant growth and also be used for imaging purposes.  This talk was part of her PhD thesis defence.

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00:59:00

Nanotubes: The Materials of the 21st Century

by Sumio Iijima
Nanotubes: The Materials of the 21st Century
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1391 views
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Carbon nanotubes, some 1000 times smaller than conventional carbon fibers, have tensile strengths 100x that of steel and conduct electricity like metals. They promise a revolution in structural and electrical engineering.

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00:23:00

New ceramic materials and their application

by Kambiz Kalantari
New ceramic materials and their application
for 22 and upwards,
Lectures | 22 and upwards | 11 years ago | 3008 views
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Multiferroic Ti-doped Bi1-x Ndx FeO3 ceramics

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01:00:00

Nuclear Power Plant Safety – What’s the Problem?

by John Collier
Nuclear Power Plant Safety – What’s the Problem?
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1699 views
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A significant proportion of our electricity is generated by thermonuclear reactions. The dangers attached to these processes and the radioactive products are well known and publicised. Much less well known are the measures taken to ensure that the hi....

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Our Light Materials

by Howard Colquhoun
Our Light Materials
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 11 years ago | 1849 views
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In the 21st century, even the toughest of metals are now being replaced by synthetic carbon-based materials that are so strong, light, and resistant to high temperatures that they can be used in the construction of high-performance aircraft.  How....

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Plastic Electronics.

by Donald Bradley
Plastic Electronics.
for 14-19 and upwards,
Lectures | 14-19 and upwards | 13 years ago | 1404 views
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Plastics have become ubiquitous structural materials due to the ease with which they can be processed at low cost into complex shapes. Imagine a world in which metals and semiconductors have similar attributes ? that is the world of Plastic Electroni....

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01:03:00

Plastic fantastic: electronics for the 21st century

by Richard Friend
Plastic fantastic: electronics for the 21st century
for 18-22 and upwards,
Lectures | 18-22 and upwards | 14 years ago | 1482 views
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Plastics - or, more correctly, polymers have traditionally been used by the electronics industry as passive materials. Now however, new types of polymers have been discovered which behave as semiconductors. For example, they can emit light when subje....

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