Rich Robinson: 30 Second Science

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(pulsing electronic accents) (film projector whirring) (pleasant bell music) (pleasant piano music) - So I'm an nanoparticle scientist.

When you get something really, really small in the nano size, some a billionth of a meter, everything starts to change.

They offer new properties, and you end up making different structures that you had never thought of before, and we're trying to make energy applications out of it.

There's so much heat, which ends up being energy that's just thrown away, so we're trying to harvest some of the heat that's all around us and turn it into energy, and nanoparticles help you because they offer new properties and more efficient properties.