When you watch an X-men movie or read a Captain America comic, you can find a new way to look at material science. Superhero comics can be just as much science as they are magic. When you take a look at Thor’s hammer, Captain America’s Shield or Wolverine’s bones, you begin to see a trend of material science colliding with these superheroes’ stories.
Suveen Mathaudu s Host Frank Stasio to talk about material science in comic books, and how it can be compared to our real world.
Suveen Mathaudhu is a professor in the department of Material Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University. He’s also the program manager of Synthesis and Processing at the US Army Research Office.
