Ian Anderson: Sustainable Materials By Design
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Ian Anderson: Sustainable Materials By Design
Who: Ian Anderson, Associate Laboratory Director for Neutron Sciences, ORNL Oak Ridge, Tennessee Where: The Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen When: December 8, 2011 What: Anderson talks about how each stage of humanity has been related to a materials epoch, going from stone age to bronze and iron age and from silicon age to carbon age. Claiming that the development of new materials is going to be the base of meeting the Grand Challenges, as well as economic security and human [...]
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Katherine Richardson Christensen: Sustainability Science
Who: Katherine Richardson Christensen, Vice Dean, Professor in Biological Oceanography, University of Copenhagen Where: The Green Lighthouse, Copenhagen When: December 8, 2011 What: Being the Former Chairman of the Danish Governments Commission on Climate Change Policy, Richardson Christensen is naturally concerned with getting access to natural resources and finding substitutes for the materials that we are running out of. In this interview, she underlines the importance of research helping society to get to a sustainable development where our demand for [...]
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Christian Vettier: The Policy On Making Science Efficient
Having led the Scandinavian initiative to build the research facility ESS in Sweden, as well as taken on responsibilities in scientific projects at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, Vettier shares his experiences with creating infrastructures for large scale research facilities.
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Edward Mitchell: Experiences From Grenoble
Edward Mitchell argues how synchrotron X-rays are the tools for characterizing materials. By using probes to understand the structure of material, and thereby linking the structure to the property and the function of the material, one can go back and improve the structure and the property of the material on a atomic, micro- and nanoscopic scale.
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Dimitri Argyriou: Exploring Materials Science
Where does the concept of the Grand Challenges come from? And why are materials so important to human evolution? Dimitri Argyriou gives an historic introduction to material science and the concept of Grand Challenges claiming that man has always been a materialist and that making tools out of materials has always been an important part of human evolution.
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Alfons Molenbroek: Catalysing World Resources
What can synchrotrons and neutron sources be used for in regards to the production of catalysis? Alfons Molenbroek talks about the importance of hydrogen catalysis in using the worlds resources, environmental protection and supply of quality products. In order to improve catalysts he points to the connection between catalysis and material properties, and how knowledge on an atomic level and molecular scale research can improve the use of selected catalysis.
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Beat H. Meier: Learning From Nature
Beat H. Meier discusses the importance of understanding the atomic resolution structure of materials, and the prospects of designing new and smart materials, such as eg. spider silk. He points to the understanding of protein self-organization as a key factor in finding cures to amyloid fibril diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Huntingston’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
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Lise Vejse Klint: Design That Matters
In her talk, Lise Vejse Klint underlines the importance of making people work in multidisciplinary teams, thereby getting inspiration from one and another, in order to create significant design products. Using Torben Vestergaard Frandsen’s portable water filter, LifeStraw, as an example, she calls for a more altruistic approach towards design. Only this way can design have a huge global impact and like Vestergaard Frandsen, transform your business and the lives of many people.
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Neil Skipper: Potentials of Neutron Scattering
What is neutron scattering useful for? Neil Skipper explains how it can help us analyze existing materials and thereby build new materials. In regards to solving Grand Challenges, major issues to his concern are how to obtain renewable energy, creating new supplies of energy, and removing contaminates and salt from the water giving the world population more drinking water.
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Jesper Christensen: Regional Growth
What will Copenhagen look like in the near future? Jesper Christensen predicts a massive increase in population and how tying up the Oresund region through collaborative projects like the Oresund Materials Innovation Community, can create immense growth within different fields of scientific research and business areas.
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