Colour from structure, with Thomas Parton

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Colour from structure, with Thomas Parton

BlueSci Podcast

31 minutes 56 seconds

4 years ago

Colour from structure, with Thomas Parton

Our guest this week is Thomas Parton, a PhD student in the Vignolini Lab in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. His research studies how colour emerges from the micro-structure of different materials that are found in nature. In this episode, we discuss his recent work studying structural colour in bio-films of rod-shaped bacteria, as well as discussing the importance of interdisciplinarity in science, and the value of taking inspiration from nature.

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