Jonas Halter's self-defending surfaces got featured in TV and other media
Jonas Halters's paper about self-defending anti-vandalism surfaces was featured in various media. A crew of the German TV channel ProSieben filmed our lab here at ETH. The report was broadcasted as part of the scientific program 'Galileo' on 14th July 2014.
Besides TV (external pageLink to the Galileo report) also printed and online media such as RSC Chemistry World, Gizmodo, 20 Minuten (the most read free daily newspaper) and Blick (the most read daily newspaper of Switzerland) featured the article.
- 'Foaming security system gives thieves a surprise', 20th March 2014, RSC Chemistry World (external pageLink)
- 'Researchers Are Making an ATM that Spews Hot Acid at Thieves', 8th May 2014, Gizmodo (USA) (external pageLink)
- 'Heisser Schaum soll Diebe in die Flucht schlagen', 11th April 2014, 20 Minuten (CH) (external pageLink)
- 'Dieser Käfer lässt dreiste Diebe zittern', 12th April 2014, Blick (CH) (external pageLink)
- More newspaper articles in: external pageDer Standard (AT), external pageSpiegel (DE), external pageTiroler Tageszeitung (AT), external pageGuardian (GB), external pageTIME (USA), external pageThe Atlantic (USA).
There were also radio reports about it on Deutschlandradio Kultur and radioeins (rbb), Germany.
- 'Explosive Folie schützt Bankautomaten', 26th April 2014, Deutschlandradio Kultur (DE) (external pageLink)
- 'Abwehr und Verteidigung aus der Natur', 03th May 2014, radioeins rbb (DE) (external pageLink)
Publication reference:
J.G. Halter, N.H. Cohrs, N. Hild, D. Paunescu, R.N. Grass and W.J. Stark, Self-defending anti-vandalism surfaces based on mechanically triggered mixing of reactants in polymer foils, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014,2, 8425-8430
external pageDOI: 10.1039/C3TA15326F