Archive for the ‘materials chemistry’ Category
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
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I'm not sure how Bethany Halford keeps pulling pretty picture duty. But she has some awesome ones in her latest article about the recent Materials Research Society "Science as Art" competition. A low-res teaser is shown below.
Courtesy of the Materials Research Society
Follow this link to see all the cool ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
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The chemical blogosphere has had their little pretty picture tangos in the past: CF, CBC, TCB, H.D
But, now you can put your SEM where your mouth is. Cris Orfescu proclaimed scientist-artist hybrid is hosting a NanoArt competition, details found here: http://www.nanoart21.org/html/nanoart_2007.html
The competition is truly open to anyone, since he offers ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
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I always enjoy introducing new chemistry blogs to the community. The newest addition comes from a chemistry graduate student from the Philippines. She has been posting for awhile now, but finally got my attention recently. Have a look and enjoy. A screen shot is below.
She claims to be an introvert ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
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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 ...
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
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Sorry for the long wait for this second post in the plasmonics series, but I got extra busy with school and the lab.
Anyways, before I start talking about what plasmons are and what they are good for, I want to thank "plasmonicsfocus" for pointing out a fact I failed to ...
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
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Have you ever felt more then a little dissatisfied with your SEM images? Black and white just not doing it for you? Wish you could see height differences at that small of a scale? Just plain tired of babying that danged machine? I know that more then once I've dreamed ...
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
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Hello readers of Chemical Forums Chemistry Blog! My name is Maz and starting today, I'll be blogging on this site along with Mitch and another fellow named 'movies'.
Oh and because I always get asked this question by lots of people; yes my real name is Maz. No it isn't the ...
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Saturday, January 13th, 2007
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My research has recently involved the process of spin coating, and being in a nuclear chemistry group we of course don't have a spin-coater lying around. So, I've been hiking up the hill to use the Somorjai group's spin-coater. This past week I decided I wanted my own spin-coater and ...
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
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The research group I work in has been interested in making me make Eu2O3 films for some time now. I can't go into specifically why the group is interested in it or how we are making the films. But, the overarching goal is to be able to make a thin ...
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