Associate Professor Jamie Quinton presented a highly entertaining, engaging and informative session about the nature of science and how research involves scientists working in an interdisciplinary fashion.
Jamie Quinton is an Associate
Professor of Nanotechnology, Physics and Chemical Physics
and he showed how there was an interesting and intimate relationship between solar cells and
sea grass restoration that is happening off the coast from Christies Beach.
He began by explaining the science behind surface modification and how being an atom on any surface would be like trying to cross South Road....blind folded!
He described how scientists take ideas and work on them from a multitude of angles and consequently find that there can be lots of applications.