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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THz materials characterization

Interview with: Dr. David Daughton from Lake Shore Cryotronics

Quantum nano-optoelectronics

Interview with: Prof Frank Koppens from ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain

FTIR microscopy and imaging

Interview with: Dr Mustafa Kansiz from Agilent Technologies.

Biosensing and diagnostic cocktails

Interview with: Professor Warren Chan and Kyryl Zagorovsky from the University of Toronto

Energy-momentum spectroscopy

Interview with: Dr Rashid Zia from Brown University.

Materials Today cover competition

Interview with: Dr. Jaime Ortiz-López from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico City

Flexible Electronics

Interview with: Dr. Luca Valentini from the University of Perugia

Temperature control

Interview with: Ed Maloof from Lake Shore Cryotronics

Charged particle microscopy

Interview with: Prof David Joy from the University of Tennessee.

Bio-optics

Interview with: Dr Nick Roberts from the University of Bristol.

Water splitting

Interview with: Prof Avner Rothschild from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Computer modeling

Interview with: Dr John Conti-Ramsden and Michael Gleaves about computer modeling.

November 2012 newscast

Rounding up the biggest news stories from November.

Transient electronics

Interview with: Prof John Rogers about electronics that dissolve in the body.

Newscast and the European Microscopy Congress

Stewart Bland rounds up the biggest news stories and speaks to exhibitors from the European Microscopy Congress.

M-ERA.net: A public funding consortium

Interview with: Dr Roland Brandenburg representing M-ERA.net

Transparent conductors

Interview with: Prof Peter Edwards from the University of Oxford and Dr Jamie Ferguson from Isis Innovation.

Biomechanics

Interview with: Brian Weden from the University of California, Riverside.

Genetically evolved semiconductors

Interview with: Dr Lukmaan Bawazer from the University of Leeds.

June/July 2012 newscast

Rounding up the biggest news stories from June and July.

Organic electronics

Interview with: Prof Paolo Samori from the University of Strasbourg and the CNRS.

Hyperspectral imaging

Interview with: Dr Francis Ndi from Horiba.

Quantum dots

Interview with: Prof Adam Micolich from the University of New South Wales.

Synthetic diamonds

Interview with: Dr Daniel Twitchen from Element Six.

UV LEDs

Interview with: Profs Ramon Collazo and Doug Irving from North Carolina State University.

Material structures

Interview with: Prof Simon Billinge from Columbia University and Brookhaven National Lab.

May 2012 newscast

We're back! With a round up of the news featured in the May issue of Materials Today.

February 2012 newscast

Round up of the news featured in the January-February issue of Materials Today.

Nano Today

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

Materials Genome Initiative

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

December 2011/January 2012 newscast

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

DNA engineering

Interview with: Prof Dan Luo from Cornell University.

Click chemistry

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

November 2011 newscast

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

Neutron scattering and isotopic substitution

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

Radiation damage

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

STEMNET

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

Nanostructured glass

Interview with: Prof Peter Kazansky from Southampton University.

Optoelectronic photonic devices

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

Nanoparticle preservation

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

Gold!

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

Dynamic holography

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

Spectroscopy for the study of biomaterials

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

Bio-nanotechnology

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

Conjugated polymers and CNTs

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

Nano-applications

Interview with: Prof Yury Gogotsi from Drexel University.

Nano Energy

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

Carbon nanomaterials and Raman spectroscopy

Interview with: Andrea Ferrari from Cambridge University.

Atomic magnetometry

Interview with: Prof Michael Romalis from Princeton University.

Repairing materials with light

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

Depositing cells with biosprays

Interview with: Dr Suwan Jayasinghe from University College London.

Charge puddles in graphene

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

Cellular photostimulation

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

Liquid crystals

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

Lensless x-ray imaging

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

Making polymers swim

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

Developments in graphene

Interview with: Prof James Tour from Rice University.

Ultrashort x-ray pulses and optical excitations

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

Improving the stability of OFETs

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

Bioinspired photonic crystals

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

Polymer nanocomposites

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

The science of silsesquioxanes

Interview with: Dr Chris Soles from NIST.

Blow molding metals

Interview with: Prof Jan Schroers from Yale University.

Infrared nanospectroscopy with the atomic force microscope

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

Chemistry and material science at the cell surface

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

Immunosensing using nanoparticles

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

Polymer Research for Renewable Energy and Clean Water

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

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

The opportunities and challenges of engineering education

Interview with: Dr Ruth Graham

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

Why Are Your Bones Not Made of Steel?

Interview with: Professor David Taylor, Trinity College, Dublin

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

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

Visualizing Graphene-Based Sheets on Arbitrary Substrate and in Solution

Interview with: Assistant Professor Jiaxing Huang, Northwestern University, USA

Graded cross-links for stronger nanomaterials

Interview with: Professor Nicola Pugno, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Resorbable biomaterials as bone graft substitutes

Interview with: Dr Marc Bohner, RMS Foundation, Switzerland

Interview with: Professor P. McMillan

Paul McMillan from University College London talks to the Materials Today team

Functionalization of Nanoporous Membranes for Biological Applications

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