In this week’s episode, Science! With Friends goes international! Jocelyn and Bradley are joined by the one and only Axel “P-CAT” Enders, nanoscientist and professor of physics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Axel shares his science story (SPOILER ALERT: even successful scientists sometimes feel like everyone else is smarter than them!) and invites us to journey with him into the nanoworld. He tells the hosts about playing atomic Legos to build nanoscale machines from the bottom up, and how he exploits the process of self-assembly that gives us complex structures like snowflakes and DNA to create novel nanostructures in the lab. The friends also discuss 21st-century wonder material graphene and Axel’s current research with graphene ribbons. So, press play, friends, and join us for a whole new kind of Enders Game!

You can find Axel Enders on Twitter at @iEnders. And For more on Axel Enders research and publications, see:
https://www.enders.uni-bayreuth.de/en/
https://unlcms.unl.edu/cas/physics/enders/node/1
2D electronics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vahr6LPFpI
Self-assembly:
https://funsizephysics.com/from-nanowaffles-to-nanostructures/
https://funsizephysics.com/froot-loops-legos-self-assembly/
A Boy and his Atom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0
Nanobot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObvxPSQNMGc
Scale:
Powers of Ten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
Scale of the Universe 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaGEjrADGPA



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The Science! With Friends Podcast is created and hosted by Jocelyn Bosley (@SciTalker) and Bradley Nordell (@bradleynordell)

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