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How Materials Science Kept the Paralympics on Track

25 April 2018

The Royal Society of Chemistry have produced a short film featuring BCFN student Maddy Nichols

The film pulls together interviews and footage taken by Maddy of the Ottobock prosthetics repair workshop at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics.

BCFN PhD students Rafael Moreno Tortolero and Maddy Nichols volunteered to travel to the games and work in the Ottobock workshop to repair athletes’ orthotics and prostheses. This is their story.

How Materials Science Kept the Paralympics on Track

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