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...carbon fuels, particularly biofuels, but the future of transport is likely to be electric. This course explains the technologies of battery-electric hybrid vehicles, full battery electric vehicles and fuel cell vehicles, where the electricity is produced from hydrogen fuel. The final section of this course also looks at those transport modes that may be the most difficult...

...carbon fibre) and to produce both structural and sandwich foams. Material is in the form of powder or granules (thermopolymers), strips (rubbers) and dough moulding compounds (DMC) for reinforced thermosets. Fibre lengths in DMC vary from 5–50 mm depending on the type of DMC, and the injection moulding method. Polymer Moulding temperature To (°C) Freeze-off temperature...

...carbon, the building blocks of today's nano world. Introducing the Electron and Scanning Tunnelling Microscopes in Cambridge. Quantum Mechanics How we can re-position atoms one by one to build a structure, and the tools needed to do it. Robots in Our Bodies? How we can begin to engineer nano-particles to fix medical problems inside the body. The New Machine Age The future...

...in action. Anxiety and hyperventilation How an anxious mind causes rapid removal of carbon dioxide from lungs, leading to significant consequences. It's all in the breath How conscious, controlled breathing enhances health and wellbeing and tames the mind. Stressed out at work A primary school teacher gets wired up with monitors to show how his body responds to stress....