Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Professor Ivan Parkin — one of the world's leading materials chemists, with over 1,000 publications and an h-index of 126 — takes us from Michael Faraday's ruby gold experiments in this very building in 1857, through to the cutting-edge nanoparticle science reshaping medicine, clean energy, air quality monitoring and building design today. Watch the full talk: youtube.com/watch?v=vbmzYz5dEPA&t=1818s

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