Question: what started you out on your career to "make new materials that do amazing things"?

Katherine Haxton answered on 12 Mar 2012:

I like science that has a definite problem to solve. So questions like ‘can we make a material that gets chromium (a toxic metal) out of water’ is really appealing to me, more than ‘can we make something new’. I loved chemistry and in the end it was a picture of a really beautiful molecule that hooked me into materials chemistry. It looked like a snowflake and was going to be used to speed up chemical reactions. I think it was the combination of very beautiful molecules doing really useful stuff that appealed to me.