10 Dec 2020

Materials Fact or Fiction - Kryptonite

From Nights, 7:30 pm on 10 December 2020

Professor Bill Williams, MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Professor in Biophysics and Soft Matter at Massey University gives us his scientific take on Superman's Kryptonite, the green crystalline material that emits radiation and weakens Superman. 

The screen-used Kryptonite crystal from the film "Superman III"  on display at Profiles In History in Calabasas, northwest of downtown Los Angeles,

Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP