All Episodes

60: Michael Filler - That's all folks

59: Ruud van Ommen - How do you do the impossible?

58: Malancha Gupta - How do you put a coating on a liquid?

57: Sang Han - How can a roof stay cool in the New Mexico sun?

56: Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb - Is our technology future paved with complex oxides?

55: Michael Filler - An electronic circuit on every seed?

54: Andrew Hunt - How do you start a nanotech company?

53: John Hart - Why isn't there a Home Depot for nanomaterials? (R)

52: Bob Sutor - Where can you test drive a quantum computer?

51: Matthew Realff - Why do we overlook process innovation?

50: Daniel Whiteson - Sorry folks, we used up all the science

49: Kate Plass - Shake and bake

48: Josh Caldwell - Bend light the wrong way

47: Greg Parsons - Knife fight

46: Insplorion - Collective oscillations

45: Fred Rascoe - Coalition Smarty-Pants

44: North Avenue Lounge - Nanovation in practice

43: Bob Hamers - Do you want to start a company?

42: Sebastien Lounis - It's a pretty sweet deal

41: Kira Barton - Not just a good talker

40: Swami Rajaraman - Electroactive and excitable

39: Lars Pleth Nielsen - Why not try something new and better?

38: Emily Weiss - When they’re smushed, they get mad

37: Victor Breedveld - That's why they pay chemical engineers the big bucks

36: Anna Fontcuberta i Morral - I’m grateful that I am naïve

35: Elizabeth Nance - Why I’m fascinated by diffusion

34: Matt McDowell - Fancy Latin words

33: Andrew Cannon - He's one of those scientists

32: Stacey Bent - A Ph.D. thesis in Russia

31: John Randall - The way I ended up being a nanofabricator

30: Eric Furst - A crystalline solid of yummy, delicious chocolate

29: Lynn Loo - You've just stepped on my soapbox

28: Dennis Hess - That's a big big number

27: Bara Cola - Naive is not a strong enough word

26: Jen Dionne - The light at the end of the tunnel

25: Vivian Ferry - What constraints are really constraints?

24: Jim Pfaendtner - Our science is at HD

23: Eray Aydil - Go to the lab and make "accidents" happen

22: Alphabet Energy - That’s a useless thermoelectric material

21: Chris Toumey - Writing is a lot of hard work

20: Mark Hersam - You get a phone call out of the blue

19: Doug Natelson - Look, I'm a physicist, I have met people like Sheldon

18: Ivan Oransky - It would be both inadvisable and highly illegal for me to treat any patients

17: Taylor Harvey - I’m not going to give you any money to do it, but you should do it

16: Mark Styczynski - The yeast are just as smart as before I got them

15: Jordi Arbiol - Anyone can do TEM

14: Matthew Realff - There's no free lunch

13: John Hart - The Home Depot for nanomaterials

12: Charlie Bennett - Heat the bonkers out of it

11: Brian Korgel - Even the simple things are hard

10: Nancy Healy - Mr. Whatever-his-name-is made too much meatball sauce

9: Fred Rascoe - Don’t put it on your CV

8: Tobias Hanrath - This guy is totally crazy

7: Suresh Sharma - The valley of death

6: Saujan Sivaram - We need a fact checking team

5: Craig Green - I'm shocked that people were shocked

4: Eric Vogel - The original nano

3: Jonathan Goldman - They want it green instead of blue

2: Bara Cola - Anyone can be an expert

1: Charlie Bennett - Thank you for your email, I will never answer it