Comments on: Lab essentials

By: Natty

Natty — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:29:28 +0000

1. Digital Electronics Toolkit. (Damn laser)
2. Sharpie
3. Masking tape
4. Lab goggles
5. Pilot Hi-Tec C, 0.3 mm

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Chemistry Blog » Blog Archive » On the subject of safety goggles — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:10:44 +0000

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By: Chemjobber

Chemjobber — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:04:11 +0000

I know — these are not the words I hoped to grace such an august publication.

By: noel

noel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:56:56 +0000

Hmm. Way to find my name in Nature pubs! Wow…

By: azmanam

azmanam — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:26:37 +0000

Congrats on this post being picked up in the current (November) issue of Nature Chemistry

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.424

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:04:42 +0000

1. Comfortable and light lab goggles
2. White cotton “artifact” gloves (good for glovebox work and long columns)
3. Black pens
4. Grease pen/sharpies (for writing on the hood glass)
5. Misc sized clamps and holders

By: psi*psi

psi*psi — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:15:54 +0000

For synthesis:
1. Pen
2. TLC pencil–I love carpenter’s pencils for this!
3. Pocketknife (like Sam I favor my little Gerber)
4. 2 different colored sharpies (in case one is the same color as the stuff I’m making)
5. Cheap calculator (in case the buttons get DCMed off)
6. Good glasscutter
7. Pliers on hand
8. Glasses with polycarbonate lenses for everything (in and out of lab), and serious goggles for more risky business.

Device work:
1. Flat-tipped tweezers (to handle AFM tips without breaking them)
2. Tweezers with rounded tips that bend at a roughly 90 degree angle (for handling device substrates without scratching films)
3. Endless supply of electrical tape, foil and kimwipes
4. Allen wrenches on hand
5. Good diamond scribe

By: kidpieces

kidpieces — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:40:34 +0000

1. Lab coat
2. googles
3. Pen
4. Pencil
5. Ruler!
6. Twizzer
7. Small notebook (to record weighs)

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:01:31 +0000

Upon preview, I guess most of these would be considered shared lab tools, not strictly personal items. But bonus points if you can scare off all of the scavengers and build up your own personal stache of these:

1. Hose clamps, and lots of different sizes of tubing. Also those plastic clamps for glass
joints; those are the number one thing we fight over in my lab.
2. Progammable hot plate + cooling circulator. Bonus points if you’ve ever used a circulator to cook food a la sous vide.
3. Ar tank wrench (not a monkey wrench, the actual sized wrench- you’d be surprised how much time that saves), gas cylinder cart, trusty bottle of soapy water for leak testing.
4. Lots and lots of clean needles and cannulas.
5. Aluminum foil.

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:44:32 +0000

What I always have in my lab coat:

Bic 4 color pen
Sharpie – fine point
tweezers
1 ml pipet bulbs
pH paper