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Episode #9: Dr. Braun discusses the exciting advancements performed in the field of soft matter, resulting in multifunctional artificial skins including sensing and also actuation capabilities. Biomimetic self-healing compositions are explored, enabling future biomimetic soft robots.

Episode #8: Dr. Tarabella discusses several examples of recent research performed with organic semiconductors and devices, developed with novel processing technologies and materials, featuring unprecedented sensing capabilities. Findings enable brand new devices based on soft matter of great availability and sustainability.

Episode #7: Dr. Fortulan presents amazing findings about the advanced electronic properties of both synthetic and natural colloids, in particular memfractance and reservoir computing (RC) tasks. He shows that RC is exceptionally executed by modified egg white proteins, providing an abundant source substrate, and featuring excellent figures of merit, compared with conventional artificial neural networks. The future technology enabled is computing with natural colloids.

Episode #6: Prof. Chiolerio discusses how the architecture design of a holonomic cybernetic system has changed and evolved to take into account recent advancements in the pioneering research on colloidal substrates. Liquid state machines, neuromorphic systems, learning and plasticity, multi-particle phase correlation are addressed. Findings enable an upcoming technology based on holonomic liquid devices for massively parallel computation.

Episode #5: Dr. Antipov discusses the challenges to be faced during the synthesis of commercial colloids, including routes to fabricate high stability, high purity bismuth ferrite nanoparticles featuring the desired oxidation state and crystalline phase. This exciting talk on nanomaterials synthesis for high tech applications brings us directly into the future.

Episode #4: Dr. Crepaldi proposes an innovative path towards establishing a digital twin of the colloid electrodynamics based on an artificial neural network. The consequences of such visionary idea is that artificial intelligence could be trained with the raw experimental measurements collected in the last years to create a comprehensive model, that later could be made free to access, making available to the broader community a precious resource.

Episode #3: Dr. Nunes dos Santos introduces us to the marvelous world of self-healing polymers, in other words plastic components that can restore their integrity after being damaged by scratches or cuts, by exploiting their labile chemical bonds that can be easily activated raising their temperature by some degrees. Such materials hold an enormous potential for many future applications, including home devices.

Episode #2: Dr. Nikolaidou presents living and hybrid unconventional materials, combining sustainable features with active properties, including sensing capabilities. Her exciting research is based on functionalized kombucha hydrogels, that involve living yeasts and bacteria communities populating a soft cellulose network. Future applications encompass smart living buildings and wearable devices.

Episode #1: Dr. Noushin Raeisi Kheirabad introduces us to the most recent exciting discoveries about the fault tolerance of colloid-based computing devices, arising from the amorphous characteristics of the colloidal mixture. These findings highlight the viability of colloid-based computing for future unconventional computing technologies.