Reviews Write New Review
[email protected]
Julia Greer
PROFESSOR OF MATERIALS SCIENCE, CALTECH
Julia Greer has made a career of exploring how materials can change properties—by getting much stronger, for instance—when reduced to microscopic sizes. A year ago, she had a revelation: What if you could fabricate nanotrusses—materials made up of tiny, intricate geometric structures linked together—in a way that might resemble, say, the webwork of the Eiffel Tower? A hunk of metal engineered from nanotrusses might look ordinary, but it could be both stronger and lighter, since it's mostly air. The technology could be revolutionary for energy, transportation, and electronics. Her team is now designing and building nanotrusses in their Caltech labs. The next challenge is manufacturing. "How do you make these materials in large sheets?" she asks. It helps that Greer, a Stanford PhD, knows her way around Silicon Valley—she has worked at both Xerox's famed PARC facility and Intel. Already, Google and other tech companies are interested in her discoveries. "We're at the beginning of this," she says. "And now we're trying to figure out how to scale it up."
Related Speakers View all
Deborah Golden
US Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte
|
|
Jay Gambetta
Vice President at IBM Quantum
|
|
Toby Gabriner
Chief Executive Officer at Bitly
|
|
Diana Frost
Chief Growth Officer, North America at Kraft Heinz C...
|
|
Damian Fagon
Chief Equity Officer at New York State Office of Can...
|
|
Mung Chiang
President at Purdue University
|
|
Tricia Biggio
Cofounder and CEO at Invisible Universe
|
|
Lauri Baker
Digital Disrupter, Advisor & Entrepreneur; SVP of St...
|
|
Rohit Badlaney
General Manager of Cloud Product and Industry Platfo...
|
|
Mallory Baches
President at Congress for the New Urbanism
|
|
Christine Andrukonis
Founder, CEO & Workplace Transformation Expert at No...
|
|
Lynn Girotto
Chief Marketing Officer at Vimeo
|
|
Liane Aihara
Product Inclusion & Equity Lead at Google
|
|
Asima Ahmad
Co-founder & Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Carrot F...
|
|
Dorianne St Fleur
DEI Strategist, Training Facilitator & Racial Equity...
|
|
Addison Rae
Social Media Personality; Content Creator on Spotify...
|
|
David Rogier
CEO & Co-Founder, MasterClass
|
|
Stuart Landesberg
Co-Founder & CEO of Grove Collaborative
|
|
Rickey Thompson
Actor, Comedian, Digital Media Personality & Podcast...
|
|
Jennifer Tejada
CEO of PagerDuty; Women in Technology Advocate & Ent...
|