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A reminder for next weeks Edinburgh Café Scientifique:

 

Edinburgh Café Scientifique

21st CENTURY MATERIALS – GREENER AND SMARTER?

to coincide with the RSC conference, MC7: Functional materials in the 21st century

 

When: Wednesday 6th July 2005, 7.30pm

Venue: Filmhouse Bar, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ

Speakers: Professor Steve Howdle, University of Nottingham and Professor Paul O’Brien, University of Manchester

 

 

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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