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The incredible chemistry powering your smartphone

Cathy Mulzer · TED

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Ever wondered how your smartphone works? Take a journey down to the atomic level with scientist Cathy Mulzer, who reveals how almost every component of our high-powered devices exists thanks to chemists -- and not the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs that come to most people's minds. As she puts it: "Chemistry is the hero of electronic communications."

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED@DuPont
Speaker
Cathy Mulzer
Year
2019
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Chemistry, Computer science, Art, architecture and design
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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