A centre for research on graphene, a material which has the potential to revolutionise numerous industries, ranging from healthcare to electronics, is to be created at the UoC.
Professor Gehan Amaratunga returned to his birthplace Sri Lanka to give the IESL Ray Wijewardene Memorial Lecture, discussing the exciting possibilities of nano technology.
Each week, Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for mankind.
New cheap lightweight plastic electronic technology that does not require silicon, but which is optically transparent and can be coated onto everyday objects would transform our world.