Chemistry Blog

Pretty Pictures: Amorphous Growths of Europium, Thulium, and Hafnium

Showing off the prettier side of research is all the rage this week. From Beth Halford’s recent piece:http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/85/8520sci2.html to psi’s latest blog post:http://coronene.blogspot.com/2007/05/sonogashira-party.html

In that spirit, here is a little collage with music of our more interesting/weird growths of some unsuccessful attempts in preparing uniform homogeneous non-radioactive targets.

Note 1: You can’t get any nerdier than adding a soundtrack to failed experiments. Mitch