Sci Fi/Sci Fact: The Terminator

While Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator introduced us to the cyborg franchise, it is the T-1000, Arnie's nemesis in Terminator 2 that really defied the realities of material science with its liquid metal endoskeleton which could reform.

MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator and Professor of Chemical Sciences at University of Auckland, Duncan McGillivray gives us his scientific take on reconfigurable materials.