Belinda Smith

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2,605 appearances 27 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

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Okay, so slow-release fertilizers, big chunk of research happening there.

What else are scientists looking at?

Okay.

So by doing that, you slow down the conversion of urea to ammonium.

Exactly.

Right.

Yes.

Do we see these enzyme inhibitors being used?

Ah, okay.

So what's the best case scenario?

Can you combine these two, the polymer coatings plus the urease blocking NBPT or its ilk?

Noah Abrahams from the University of Melbourne.

Staying in Melbourne and another scientist who's looking to increase harvests, but in this case, harvested energy.

Robert Kamieniewicz from RMIT University has made a kind of nylon that generates an electrical current when it's squeezed.

If you think about how we generate energy and how

We move around a lot in our day-to-day lives, walking, driving the car, handling our phones.

There's a lot of application to our movement, and that energy is often overlooked.

We don't harness that.

So if we can tap into that passive energy, that ambient energy that exists all around us, because we're always on the move, and not just us.

So it's kind of like that untapped market that we're after.

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