Podcasts

Over the coming months we hope you enjoy listening to the many voices of Materials Today.

You will hear fascinating and thought provoking sound bites from a plethora of speakers from academia and industry, explaining the motivation behind their work and their visions of the future. We guarantee that each podcast will provide you with a wealth of valuable information, and thoughts and insights that may help you in your own research endeavors.

If there are any particular scientists or research topics you would like to hear more about just drop us an email and we will do the best we can. You can contact us directly at materialstoday@elsevier.com

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Nano Today

Interview with: Prof Jackie Ying, Editor of Nano Today.
01 February 2012

Materials Genome Initiative

Interview with: Prof Ian Robertson from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
11 January 2012

December 2011/January 2012 newscast

Round up of the news featured in the December issue of Materials Today.
04 January 2012

DNA engineering

Interview with: Prof Dan Luo from Cornell University.
13 December 2011

Click chemistry

Interview with: Jonathan Brantley from the University of Texas at Austin.
27 November 2011

November 2011 newscast

Round up of the news featured in the November issue of Materials Today.
15 November 2011

Neutron scattering and isotopic substitution

Interview with: Prof Philip Salmon from the University of Bath.
24 October 2011

Radiation damage

Interview with: Dr Peter Hosemann from the University of California, Berkeley.
14 October 2011

STEMNET

Interview with: Kirsten Bodley from the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network.
26 September 2011

Nanostructured glass

Interview with: Prof Peter Kazansky from Southampton University.
02 September 2011

Optoelectronic photonic devices

Interview with: Prof Paul Braun from the University of Illinois.
22 August 2011

Nanoparticle preservation

Interview with: Dr Eleanor Schofield from the University of Kent.
12 August 2011

Gold!

Interview with: Dr Richard Holliday from the World Gold Council.
06 August 2011

Dynamic holography

Interview with: Prof Pierre-Alexandre Blanche from the University of Arizona.
22 July 2011

Spectroscopy for the study of biomaterials

Interview with: Dr Admir Masic from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.
15 July 2011

Bio-nanotechnology

Interview with: Dr Jaime Castillo from the Technical University of Denmark.
08 July 2011

Conjugated polymers and CNTs

Interview with: Dr Lei Zhai from the University of Central Florida.
01 July 2011

Nano-applications

Interview with: Prof Yury Gogotsi from Drexel University.
23 June 2011

Nano Energy

Interview with: Prof Zhong Lin Wang from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
13 June 2011

Carbon nanomaterials and Raman spectroscopy

Interview with: Andrea Ferrari from Cambridge University.
03 June 2011

Atomic magnetometry

Interview with: Prof Michael Romalis from Princeton University.
24 May 2011

Repairing materials with light

Interview with: Prof Christoph Weder from the University of Fribourg.
13 May 2011

Depositing cells with biosprays

Interview with: Dr Suwan Jayasinghe from University College London.
04 May 2011

Charge puddles in graphene

Interview with: Prof Brian LeRoy from the University of Arizona.
21 April 2011

Cellular photostimulation

Interview with: Prof Richard Rabbitt from the University of Utah.
15 April 2011

Liquid crystals

Interview with: Prof Tommaso Bellini from the University of Milan.
08 April 2011

Lensless x-ray imaging

Interview with: Dr Sujoy Roy from the Advanced Light Source.
30 March 2011

Making polymers swim

Interview with: Prof Tony Ryan OBE from the University of Sheffield.
23 March 2011

Developments in graphene

Interview with: Prof James Tour from Rice University.
16 March 2011

Ultrashort x-ray pulses and optical excitations

Interview with: Prof Andrea Cavalleri from the Universities of Oxford and Hamburg.
09 March 2011

Improving the stability of OFETs

Interview with: Prof Bernard Kippelen from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
03 March 2011

Bioinspired photonic crystals

Interview with: Dr Michael Bartl from the University of Utah.
21 February 2011

Polymer nanocomposites

Interview with: Prof Karen Winey from the University of Pennsylvania.
14 February 2011

The science of silsesquioxanes

Interview with: Dr Chris Soles from NIST.
04 February 2011

Blow molding metals

Interview with: Prof Jan Schroers from Yale University.
27 January 2011

Infrared nanospectroscopy with the atomic force microscope

Interview with: Craig Prater; Chief Technical Officer for Anasys Instruments, Santa Barbara, USA
22 April 2010

Chemistry and material science at the cell surface

Interview with: Assistant Professor Jeffrey Karp; Harvard Medical School, USA
23 March 2010

Immunosensing using nanoparticles

Interview with: Professor Arben Merkoçi; ICREA & ICN, Spain
19 March 2010

Polymer Research for Renewable Energy and Clean Water

Interview with: Assistant Professor Michael Hickner; Pennsylvania State University, USA
17 March 2010

In-Vitro Replication Of The Three-Dimensional Architecture of Biological Tissues

Interview with: Raquel Perez-Castillejos, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA
23 February 2010

The opportunities and challenges of engineering education

Interview with: Dr Ruth Graham
23 February 2010

A Biomimetic Approach toward Green Antifouling Technologies

Interview with: Prof. Tony Brennan, Margaret A. Ross Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida, USA
18 February 2010

Why Are Your Bones Not Made of Steel?

Interview with: Professor David Taylor, Trinity College, Dublin
16 February 2010

Nano and the public: Research at the intersection of politics, communication, and emerging technologies

Interview with: Prof. Dietram A. Scheufele, John E. Ross Chaired Professor in Science Communication at the University of Wisconsin, USA February 2010
15 February 2010

Sensing current and forces with scanning probe microscopy

Interview with: Associate Professor Jeong Young Park, EEWS graduate school of Kaist (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), South Korea February 2010
09 February 2010

Visualizing Graphene-Based Sheets on Arbitrary Substrate and in Solution

Interview with: Assistant Professor Jiaxing Huang, Northwestern University, USA
03 February 2010

Graded cross-links for stronger nanomaterials

Interview with: Professor Nicola Pugno, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
27 January 2010

Resorbable biomaterials as bone graft substitutes

Interview with: Dr Marc Bohner, RMS Foundation, Switzerland
25 January 2010

Interview with: Professor Paul McMillan, University College, London


25 January 2010

Functionalization of Nanoporous Membranes for Biological Applications

Interview with: Professor Roger Narayan, University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University
19 January 2010