• Question: What is your favourite thing that you have created?

    Asked by sam_baker to Valerie, Steve, Sean, Kath, Carmel, Alex on 13 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Kathryn Thomas

      Kathryn Thomas answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      I made some really pretty disks which were half rough and half smooth, so that I could prove that bacteria grow more on the roughened surfaces. I got some really cool pictures of the middle of the sample where you could see half the image had a lot of growth and the other half had hardly any so it looked really cool.

    • Photo: Stephen Lang

      Stephen Lang answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      The first “intelligent” artificial knee, back in the 1990s. It made such an immediate difference to the quality of life of those who used it.

    • Photo: Valerie Bentivegna

      Valerie Bentivegna answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      I’m really proud of these lenses I made that I can hand out to people to use with their smartphone as a microscope. It doesn’t really have to do with my research, but it’s amazing to show people how it works and see their face when I say they can keep the lens 🙂

    • Photo: Carmel Howe

      Carmel Howe answered on 15 Nov 2017:

      my fav thing would be my surfaces that I have made out of gold and used a technique called photolithography to pattern them (it’s like developing camera film on glass). I changed all the surface chemistry and made my brain cells happy to live on them. thats pretty cool.

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