AMN8 Queenstown: ‘You followed your dreams and it all worked out’
Three women at the forefront of nano science discussed their work and the hurdles they faced during the AMN8 conference this week.
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Charles Anderson is a journalist who looks for stories all over the show, but he ended up in Nelson because it's the centre of the universe.
AMN8 Queenstown: taking the plunge from lab to marketplace
As the government doubles down on trying to get good science into the marketplace, how are scientists preparing for the commercial world?
AMN8 Queenstown: teaching science through a soccer ball, with a dash of apocalypse
Bioengineer Albert Folch uses football to kick off children's scientific curiosity. Charles Anderson watches the AMN8 guest work his magic at a Queenstown primary school.
AMN8 Queenstown: The NZ students uncovering the secrets of solar cell technology at Oxbridge
Among the 500 delegates who have descended on the AMN8 conference in Queenstown from around the world are two New Zealand students who have taken their studies abroad. In his third blog post from AMN8, the advanced materials and nanotechnology conference hosted by The MacDiarmid Institute, Charles Anderson talks to them.
AMN8 Queenstown: The man who unboiled an egg: inspiring science behind the viral research
The inventor of the Vortex Fluid Device tells Charles Anderson how the machine that famously converted a boiled egg back into its original state could have huge implications.
AMN8 Queenstown: a nano-solution to a toothy problem
Dr Carla Meledandri promises that the photograph of decaying teeth is the only 'gross' one that she will show this morning, reports Charles Anderson in his second blog post from AMN8, the advanced materials and nanotechnology conference hosted by The MacDiarmid Institute, in Queenstown.
AMN8 Queenstown: talking superconductor sandwiches at 25,000 feet
Charles Anderson is in Queenstown for AMN8 – the advanced materials and nanotechnology conference hosted by The MacDiarmid Institute. In his first blog from the event, he enjoys a heaven-sent introduction to the field from Ben Mallett on the flight south.
The incredible possibilities of the new thermopower generation
By embracing the thermoelectric potential of polymers, Rachel Segalman is pursuing a new frontier in the use of power to heat or cool. A speaker at the AMN8 conference in Queenstown, she talks to Charles Anderson
Soaking up the sun: how a miracle mineral may hold the key to a solar energy revolution
The unique properties of Perovskite provide hope for a wholly sustainable future, 'propelling the next stage of human advancement', says Henry Snaith, a a guest at next week's AMN8 conference in Queenstown.
How tiny diamonds could forever change the face of medicine
First discovered in atomic bomb testing, nanodiamonds could prove crucial to a range of technologies that change, if not save, lives. Charles Anderson talks to nanoscientist Amanda Barnard, a guest at the AMN8 conference in Queenstown.
