Materials Physics podcasts

Hamish Johnston speaks with iGii co-founder Marco Caffio about Gii, a porous three-dimensional carbon nanomaterial. They discuss how it retains useful electronic, structural and chemical properties associated with graphene while offering different manufacturing and integration options. Applications include chemical sensors, batteries and heaters. The conversation also covers the company’s origins and career advice for physicists entering materials technology.

Hosted by Hamish Johnston

Markus Suta of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf speaks with Tom Götze-Ebert about inorganic photoactive materials and phosphors spanning infrared to ultraviolet wavelengths. The episode examines material choices for lighting, approaches to improving environmental performance and the use of luminescence to measure temperature.

Hosted by Tom Götze-Ebert