How does materials science affect our lives?

How does materials science affect our lives? - with Anna Ploszajski

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What's the science behind everyday materials like glass, plastic, steel, and sugar? And how can you make a chocolate trumpet? Find out with Anna's demo-packed talk.
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Join Anna Ploszajski to learn about materials science - the interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials - in ways you'd never imagine through the world of craft.
As a materials scientist, Anna has turned to storytelling to communicate her work in new and engaging ways. Through her stories and demos, you'll see materials in a whole new way.
This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 9 May 2023.
An honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Anna Ploszajski is an award-winning materials scientist, presenter, comedian and storyteller based in London. She’s a materials generalist, equally fascinated by metals, plastics, ceramics, glasses and substances from the natural world. Her work centres around engaging traditionally underserved audiences with materials science and engineering through writing, podcasting, presenting and social media. Having developed her own unique blend of autobiographical scientific storytelling in her first book, Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning Through Making, she now trains professional technical people to communicate what they do better, through the study of story. In her spare time, Anna plays the trumpet in a funk and soul covers band and is an ultra-endurance open water swimmer. Oh, and it’s pronounced “Por-shy-ski”.
With thanks to the Royal Academy of Engineering for their generous support in making tickets to this event free to London schools.
00:00 Intro
4:59 What is materials science and how does it relate to making?
11:25 Intro to glass
15:00 What’s the science behind glass blowing? (demo)
19:27 The optical properties of glass
24:34 Intro to plastic - and Grandad George
37:38 The issues with recycling plastic
40:57 Steel - and breaking the landspeed record
47:29 What happens when you freeze a Snickers? (demo)
49:07 Why do brittle materials break?
53:03 Blacksmithing (demo)
57:56 Intro to brass
59:20 How harmonics work
1:03:21 Demonstrating the Rubens tube
1:06:59 How the trumpet has evolved
1:13:59 What can you make a trumpet out of?
1:17:10 Intro to sugar molecules
1:20:20 Why sugar burns
1:24:09 What sugar crystals look like
1:26:53 Conclusion
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Пікірлер: 66

@shwetaram1712 2 ай бұрын

Your positive outlook on Materials is just infectious!! Thanks for this amazing lecture!!

@Nitrogen858 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for an interesting presentation about materials!

@Tommy1977777 Жыл бұрын

I don't think we've fully unlocked materials science potential.

@ac.creations Жыл бұрын

Room temperature superconductors!

@savage22bolt32 Жыл бұрын

@@ac.creations element 115..

@chrupek272 7 ай бұрын

awesome presentation!

@stephanmotzek779 Жыл бұрын

Just amazing ❤

@aboodymahdy Жыл бұрын

I thought we might get deeper in materials unique specifications and what some combinations might give us, or which qualities we get out of them.

@Just.A.T-Rex Жыл бұрын

These are meant for high school education and below dude

@katarinajanoskova Жыл бұрын

Maybe try her book?

@13minutestomidnight 7 ай бұрын

This was a fun and interesting presentation, but I think it would have been better to have more in-depth information about the specific structures and qualities of different materials. Probably should have gotten the craftsmen themselves to come out and demonstrate bits and pieces of their craft for the audience. Nonetheless, still fun and demos are hard to do live too.

@adamdavis5961 Жыл бұрын

I've missed so much of this because of commercials. It's just abusive now. I'll try to watch again later. Gonna watch the Glass Onion without commercials now.

@katarinajanoskova Жыл бұрын

Have you tried an adblock?

@passtheparcel2024 4 ай бұрын

She just throughly captivated her audience with facts, anedotes an accounts of how material were invented, used an the associated problems, especially with plastics...

@lostboytnt1 7 ай бұрын

one of my favorite quotes is, "The more you know, the more you know, there's more to know."

@user-jy3ux8zo7o 8 ай бұрын

amazing

@passtheparcel2024 4 ай бұрын

Plastic recycling an reuse is a huge industry, an is increasing daily. To make the best use of this fascinating material.

@iRiang 5 ай бұрын

Love it ❤️

@olegostanin9219 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if materials science can explain how a person can be so awesome.

@YogeshKumar-js7tx Жыл бұрын

I think it should be filled with experiments and demonstrations than history

@RustyShackleford66 12 күн бұрын

She should write a book.

@SixthMassExtinction Жыл бұрын

Wow. Thank you heaps for this episode. I greatly enjoyed it and learnt heaps from it. Great displays. 👌👍

@passtheparcel2024 4 ай бұрын

When she blew a hole in the CD after heating it. That was a wow, moment!

@busterthemutt8224 6 ай бұрын

I kind of want to try glass blowing but I figured it'd be more about creativity like she did, I use to study art but fell out of it due to it being damn near all computerized and I have no imagination even though I'v got a decent skill in arts, plus some medical issues make it hard to keep my hands steady. xD

@simonspencer397 Жыл бұрын

I heard a rumour that she has a book coming out?

@Charok1 Жыл бұрын

Mark Miodownik's two books on material science are good.

@cezarcatalin1406 Жыл бұрын

I still find funny “the soviet method of making rubber from potatoes”. Potato->Ethanol(bad vodka)->Butadiene->Rubber

@passtheparcel2024 4 ай бұрын

As regards the history of horns/trumpets, she left out the Shofar (rams horn) used in biblical times, an still used today.

@donaldhobson8873 Жыл бұрын

No crumpet trumpet 🤔😋

@MichaLLLBM Жыл бұрын

I'm a bit dissatisfied with the explanation of why maltodextrin doesn't burn. If that really depends on ring numbers, then polysaccharides like flour/starch shouldn't burn either. But they do. It's more about the degree of fragmentation I think. Or even water molecules that are in the crystalline framework. But the shoes are really cool!

@bryan__m 5 ай бұрын

I don't think it was that malto doesn't burn, it's just that it's harder to burn than sucrose. Also flours/starches aren't pure polysaccharides, so they might have easier to burn components that help get the reaction started.

@MichaLLLBM 5 ай бұрын

@@bryan__m And I just remember that you even need a catalyst for burning sucrose. That whole "burning suggar" thing seems quite interesting for further studying

@Chemist1076 5 ай бұрын

Years ago, my company recycled 13 million CDs and DVD per month.

@CookingWithCows Жыл бұрын

It's funny that they removed the historical desk for her while they kept it for other people doing fire and explosions, haha..

@MrElvis1971 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, they specifically removed it for her.

@inzombniacc Жыл бұрын

They have removed it lots of times.

@MrElvis1971 Жыл бұрын

@@inzombniacc yep, seen lots of videos with it gone. Could even be a different theatre.

@geoffgeoff143 7 ай бұрын

Glass melts. It just doesn't have a defined melting temperature.

@ThunderBassistJay Жыл бұрын

3:34 An evil genius, Elon Musk type of character... 🤣🤣🤣

@FranzKafkaRockOpera Жыл бұрын

I would assume that, coming from a working researcher, the "genius" part is at least somewhat ironic.

@EdwardHowton Жыл бұрын

I mean, for all that Musk is a complete fraud and an undeniably terrible person, he still puts on the _show_ that's reminiscent of a stereotypical cartoon villain. If you get a bit into linguistics (I recommend Steven Pinker's _The Language Instinct_ for example) you quickly see that there are some "words" that look like multiple words. It's not that Musk is an "evil" "genius" but that he's an "evilgenius". An evilgenius is not a genius who is evil, it's a villain who behaves in a certain way. To give you another example, think of when you greet someone. "Hey how's it going" isn't actually a sentence, it's just a bit of noise with a specific function in speech: beginning a conversation with someone or acknowledging their presence. Taken separately the components of that phrase would involve asking someone for specifics about their physical/emotional state, but if someone starts to actually _answer_ that not-actually-a-question it feels strange. Language is full of these little functional words that, on paper, look like sentence fragments or compound words, y'know? (Like that last one!)

@clown134 8 ай бұрын

'wazzaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh'@@EdwardHowton

@patriciajob7829 7 ай бұрын

Very interesting but I feel that I lost third of my time listening of a lot of bla bla family or what ever. But still a good performance and I have learn things so thank you and thanks to RI for showing us that we can learn in a funny way...may be desapointed cause I wanted to learn more. Have a nice day

@subliminalvibes Жыл бұрын

Only TWO of the comments below are from humans... 🙄

@passtheparcel2024 4 ай бұрын

All that, an not a script in sight...

@graphite7473 Жыл бұрын

Nevermind that the kind of UAP with instantaneous accelerations reportedly use a metamaterial to achieve low energy spacetime warpage. Materials Science will change EVERYTHING we thought we knew, and everything we thought we were already good at doing, like getting around quickly for example.

@yanemailg Жыл бұрын

Hem...

@BA-vr4fz 10 ай бұрын

I can't watch a broken snickers lying on the floor

@JackGladstoneHolroyde Жыл бұрын

As a queer person in STEM, i cant express how liberating it is to see a butch queer woman actually give a performance and make her talk pop. Well done Dr Ploszajski!

@divyankmishra7722 Жыл бұрын

She is looking like a female version of "Tom Cruise".

@theonewhowas7709 11 ай бұрын

um um um ummm *smacks lips* um um um *smacks lips* ... WTF

@AL_EKs 3 ай бұрын

A bit too much "woke" energy for an upper level institution of such great regard.

@MindThemNot Жыл бұрын

So much funny, kiddy blabla.. missing the information in between all the giggly small talk and Side Stories ..maybe better suited for a stand up comedy stage...

@user-wx3ie1eq8n 7 ай бұрын

Perhaps you commented too early. It was quite interesting and informative.

@fongponto 2 ай бұрын

@@user-wx3ie1eq8nI was wondering how come she was such an engaging speaker and then she told that she had been doing stand up also and then on she started to morph into the science side of the topic And ofcourse in the end it is her book promotion (a science relatable book for dummies I suppose)