Stuff: A Horizon Guide to Materials

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Overview

Engineer Jem Stansfield looks back through the Horizon archives to find out how scientists have come to understand and manipulate the materials that built the modern world. Whether it is uncovering new materials or finding fresh uses for those man has known about for centuries, each breakthrough offers a tantalising glimpse of the holy grail of materials science - a substance that is cheap to produce and has the potential to change the world. Jem explores how a series of extraordinary advances has done just that - from superconductors to the silicon revolution.

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00:00:03 The buildings we live in
00:02:44 He calls his invention Starlite.
00:05:07 Ward refused to let any samples of Starlite out of his sight
00:07:36 Uranium doesn't have much of a past and it may well
00:09:50 So valuable was it, he was the only one allowed to use it
00:11:55 once they'd brought them up from the sea bed.
00:14:44 Probably an intrusive rock
00:16:50 have set up a company with the extraordinary idea
00:19:31 The fragment will then be scanned by an electron beam
00:21:38 Sometimes, it's just a matter of looking at
00:24:03 Scientists thought that super conducting transmission lines
00:25:57 For this purpose
00:28:47 # A kiss of the hand may be quite continental
00:31:07 and the nitrogen atoms were irresistibly drawn towards it
00:33:25 that can tell the two apart.
00:35:40 What's absolutely fascinating and certainly something that excited me
00:38:23 they settled on one shape that seemed to work.
00:40:33 Rival research teams raced to be the first
00:43:02 I'm Lon Chen. We're working on the functionisation chemistry of C-60...
00:46:11 PLAYS TUNE
00:49:02 the nominee of the one-nine-seven-six
00:51:17 'It uses no paper, the text can be moved around
00:53:57 and all manner of technological advances.
00:57:40 will never give up in their pursuit of the next big thing.

Cast & Characters

Jem Stansfield Self - Presenter Simon Lawson Self - Gem Defensive Projects, De Beers

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,500
First line00:00:03
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Production Record

LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes13