Are Nanoparticles Alive? — Amanda Barnard, ISS2013

Dr Amanda Barnard from the Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory at CSIRO Materials Science & Engineering, speaking to students at ISS2013: Nanoscience — Sydney, Australia, July 2013.

There are many characteristics shared by living things — such as homeostasis, reproduction, adaptation, response to stimuli ... And nanoparticles can be shown to do all of these things. So the question is, are nanoparticles alive?