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A New Science Video Series From Nifty Fifty Speaker Ainissa Ramirez

By kcollins on November 7, 2011.

AT&T sponsored Nifty Fifty program speaker and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Yale University Ainissa Ramirez has created a new YouTube video series entitled Material Marvels from her lab at Yale on some pretty cool materials used in space, robots and even in your mouth! Her titles to date are Space Shuttle Tiles, Shape Memory Alloys, Solar Cells and Quasicrystals.

Here is the first in her series:

Ainissa Ramirez is perhaps best known for discovering a universal solder that can bond metals to ceramics, glass, diamonds and the oxide materials used in semiconductor fabrication. She also developed thin film shape-memory alloys, which have the unique property of "remembering" and reverting back to their original shape.

Read more about Ainissa here.

Can you think of some other materials that would make good video subjects?

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AT&T sponsored Nifty Fifty program speaker Ainissa Ramirez
Material Marvels
Quasicrystals
Shape Memory Alloys
Solar Cells
Space Shuttle Tiles
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