Ceramics | How It Works

Ceramics | How It Works

Bonding Structure and Properties | BBC Four | 2012 | 58'34''

Professor Mark Miodownik looks at how simple clay, sand and rock can be changed into pottery, glass and concrete to build cities and transform the wa...

Plastic | How It Works

Plastic | How It Works

Alkanes, alkenes, polymers | BBC Four | 2012 | 59'01''

Mark Miodownik shows how plastics have brought luxury to the masses and reveals how the next generation will take its inspiration from nature and coul...

Metal | How It Works

Metal | How It Works

Bonding Structure and Properties | BBC Four | 2012 | 58'37''

Mark Miodownik traces the history of our love affair with metal. He investigates metals at the atomic level and sees how metal crystals can be grown to ...

Secrets of the Super Elements

Secrets of the Super Elements

Bonding Structure and Properties | BBC Four | 2017 | 59'34''

In the first BBC documentary to be filmed entirely on smartphones, Mark Miodownik reveals the weird materials that have built our high-tech world.

Superconductors | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

Superconductors | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

Bonding Structure and Properties | BBC Four | 2011 | 3'01''

Jim Al-Khalili looks at how, in 1986, IBM researchers discovered a breakthrough regarding superconductivity in cera...

Semiconductors and WWII | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

Semiconductors and WWII | Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity

Bonding Structure and Properties | BBC Four | 2011 | 4'15''

Jim Al-Khalili explains the importance of semiconductors, particularly with regard to fighting WWII.
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