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Videos (8)
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s superalloys!
Did you know that aeroplanes are able to fly because of tiny, TINY structures, less than the width of…
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Doing a PhD on Your Hobby – Scooters
Combining your work with your favourite hobby – surely that’s the dream? Meet Sebastian Pearson, an Engineering PhD student…
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Lockdown Walks – What’s that solar panel doing?
Have you ever walked down the street and seen a rooftop covered in black shiny panels? Ever wondered exactly…
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Can we make a sensor that can match a sniffer dog?
When it comes to sensing potentially-dangerous vapours, sniffer dogs are still considered the gold standard. In this animation we…
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Soluble Semiconductors- A revolution in Printing for the 21st Century?
The digital age is built upon semiconductors. The crystalline semiconductors, such as silicon or germanium, lie behind modern electronics…
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Materials for nuclear fusion: how do you confine a sun to a box?
We face an energy crisis, so the idea of a clean, potentially limitless supply of energy is deeply appealing. Nuclear…
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How does electricity flow through small objects?
Single molecules are small – really small! But what if we could harness some of their abilities to conduct…
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Jet Plight
Jet engines are in many ways the ultimate mechanical engineering endeavour. The flow temperatures, pressures and accelerations involved are…
Podcasts (6)
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How could spider sex unlock secrets to engineering?
Not everyone is the biggest fan of spiders…we know that. They might not be the first thing that springs…
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What is green steel?
Steel has become an essential commodity in modern society – used in everything from our cars and our buildings…
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Where is my hoverboard?
According to the much-loved ‘Back to the Future’ franchise, we should all be zipping around on hoverboards by now.…
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How do you turn a plastic bag into fuel?
There are a lot of plastic bags out there. Every year we get through one trillion plastic bags worldwide!…
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Why does my phone battery suck?
Most people use their phones every single day for communicating with others, using the Internet, playing games via apps.…
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How do you become an astronaut?
Millions dream of being an astronaut, but how many of us have what it takes? In this episode of…
Scientists (6)
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Victoria Strutt
Having completed my undergraduate degree at Oxford University in the Department of Materials Science, I joined the atom probe…
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Sebastian Pearson
I started doing tricks on scooters when I was 13 and I was hooked. A few years later, when…
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Shahnaz Hoque
My Story My parents emigrated from a village in Bangladesh to London, where I was born. I grew up…
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Clara Barker
I am a thin-film material scientist who manages the Centre for Applied Superconductivity, in the Materials Science department at…
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Shazeaa Ishmael
My Story I was born in South London, both of my parents are first generation immigrants from Guyana and…
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Sebastian Bonilla
I am an electronics engineer and scientist working on the improvement of solar energy generation. Climate change is one…
