14 Jun 2024

The Terminator

From Sci Fi / Sci Fact, 5:00 am on 14 June 2024
HOLLYWOOD, CA - OCTOBER 15: Director James Cameron attends the American Cinematheque 30th Anniversary Screening Of "The Terminator" Q+A at the Egyptian Theatre on October 15, 2014 in Hollywood, California.

Director James Cameron with The Terminator Photo: AFP

Head shot of Duncan McGillivray

Duncan McGillivray Photo: MacDiarmid Institute

While Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator introduced us to the cyborg franchise, it is the T-1000, Arnie's nemesis in Terminator 2 that really defied the realities of material science with its liquid metal endoskeleton which could reform.

MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Professor of Chemical Sciences at University of Auckland, Duncan McGillivray gives us his scientific take on reconfigurable materials.

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