Duncan McGillivrary, Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute and Associate Professor in Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland gives us his scientific take on Baakonite from Star Trek - a strong, reinforced metal used for traditional Klingon weaponry such as the bat'leth.
Klingon Bat'leths at the booth of Khemorex Klinzhai at FedCon Photo: Maximilian Reininghaus. Cropped by Fallschirmjäger / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)
