TTC #284 Going Nano to Create Everyday Technology

Konstantinos Giannakopoulos is a Research Officer of the Laboratory of Electromicroscopy and Nanomaterials at the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”. He talks about how technology is now developing, by what he and his peers are doing at the nano and atom scale, where they manipulate matter. Using the information about the composition and properties of materials he says is what has lead to the advanced materials behind everyday things we all enjoy. The technology behind your microphone, your screen, the processors and other elements that interconnect devices, so that we can take and see pretty pictures on a variety of devices, talk to each other remotely or seamlessly, watch a movie, is all the result of working and changing materials at the smallest level. Konstantinos talks about their EU funded project www.materialsfuture.eu where information on materials is available for free in 23 languages as well as, short films, educational games, lesson plans for schools and other cool stuff. Interviewed by Sakis Triantafyllakis for Tech Talks Central.