• Question: What type of things do you make out of materials and what is your best creation yet?

    Asked by brittanym to Katherine on 12 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by brinkworthr, tomboy900hp, lulubrybry.
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      Katherine Haxton answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      We make tiny materials that do things to other molecules. So new catalysts that make reactions happen faster, or release an anticancer drug at a steady rate. One of the best things at the moment is a material that can carry silver ions. Silver ions can kill bacteria so we were thinking about putting it in plasters to help prevent wounds becoming infected or for treating wounds that are already infected.

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