Smart surfaces as a solution to global challenges

Professor Jas Pal Badyal, a Fellow of the Royal Society, is widely considered a leader in the field of surface science. Here he talks about the students in his team, their inventions and tackling global challenges. Tell us about your lab and the students Over the years, my students have invented a whole range of different functional surfaces which have been patented. They cover anything that you can imagine that has a surface. There is always some functionality we can put onto it that adds value to it. Can you give us some examples? We have made surfaces that are anti-microbial so they can kill bugs and you can apply them to textiles. We have also developed surfaces on which you can grow skin tissue.