From wearable sensors to personalised medicines and solar panels, nanostructures made from functional molecules are already enhancing our lives. Nonetheless, science is still playing catchup as nature has been nailing nanostructures for hundreds of millions of years. Whether it is peacock feathers or butterfly wings, scientists can only dream of manipulating matter with such elegance. Jess reveals that the most miraculous molecular structures of all exist a pair of non-superimposable mirror images; where the left and right-handed forms can have remarkably different materials properties. Jess will also talk about her efforts to celebrate scientists from historically marginalised groups, and how science needs to change to support the next-generation of scientists.
You spin me right round: chiral molecules and changing the world, one Wikipedia page at a time. With Dr Jess Wade of Imperial College London
12 October 2021 19:00-20:00, United Kingdom
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University of Central Lancashire & STEM Learning UK
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United Kingdom
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Valerie Seymour Lancaster University, United Kingdom
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Anna Kirkham University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Peter Moorcroft Broughton & District Club, United Kingdom
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John Hepworth University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Lancaster University
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