21st CENTURY MATERIALS – GREENER AND SMARTER?

How will advances in materials change the way we live? Biodegradable polymers for human organs; flexible plastic e-newspapers; or smart buildings with nano-coatings.

Speakers
Professor Steve Howdle, University of Nottingham and
Professor Paul O’Brien, University of Manchester
A joint Café Scientifique, Royal Society of Chemistry and BA
Imagine implanting biodegradable polymers to generate or repair human organs; using flexible plastic electronic newspapers every morning to download the daily news; and living and working in smart buildings with nano-coatings that are able to regulate temperature and lighting automatically.
How will advances in materials change the way we live over the next century? Scientists are developing smarter materials that can respond to their environments and new electronic materials are set to change the size and type of electronic products we use. Advances are coming out of the exciting field of nanotechnology but are also being inspired by replicating how biological materials are formed. More importantly new materials will improve energy efficiency and greener methods will make processing and synthesis cleaner and greener.
Come and find out more about the materials of the future and discuss the shape of things to come …

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