Just a quick link about an upcoming article in Physical Review Letters (btw. does this journal’s name sound like an oxymoron to you as well?). The scientists of the LIGO have managed to cool down a dime sized mirror to a bit less than 1 Kelvin; all just by two simple laser irradiation procedures: optical […]
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A very cool mirror
Published by April 14th, 2007 in experiment, future technology, hipness and literature. 0 CommentsA short, quick and dirty update today — actually more a pointer for anyone who cares about carbon-based matter… Published monthly, the “Peak Oil Report — March 2007” by the bloggers at The Oil Drum is a very good resource and overview over anything peak oil. It has summaries of the current published oil production data […]
Are DNA-polymer-conjugates finally taking off?
Published by February 26th, 2007 in biopolymers, future technology, hipness, literature and nanotechnology. 4 CommentsDNA-Polymer conjugates seem to be taking off these days. Having seen Corinne Vebert’s presentation on her DNA-poly(butadiene)-block-copolymers at this year’s polymer meeting in Freiburg, I just checked up on some chemistry blogs I read and find a post on “On the road” about a similar system by A. Herrmann, who was also present at the […]
Polymerizing the unpolymerizable
Published by January 12th, 2007 in future technology and preparative. 0 CommentsAccording to Washburn et al. polymers from 1,2-disubstituted ethylenes with substituting groups larger than methyl groups are now polymerizable, just as thermodynamics would expect, just not in large amounts (yet).
