Derek has an entertaining story about column chromatography over at his blog. Too good we don’t often have to do any of those anymore when dealing with goo. Oh, don’t ask how we purify this stuff… I have had two students sent to the hospital once because they lost their minds over a simple polymer purification […]
Archive for the 'soot' Category
Sometimes it helps to actually read a blog via its web page… found at the bottom (is it my browser or is this the easter egg?) of Carbon based curiosities: You cannot win. You cannot break even. You cannot stop playing the game. Written by whom? I know there […]
And we thought Carbon Nano Tubes were new….
Published by November 17th, 2006 in ancient technology, carbon nano tube, link and soot. 1 CommentToday I found a bit of news on Natures homepage. It looks like carbon nano tubes are not as new as we all might have believed. The material obviously played a role in the manufacture of Damascus blades. Now what are Bayer going to do with Baytubes? Will those patents hold up http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-11.html
What’s behind the name of this blog?
Published by November 10th, 2006 in experiment, goo and soot. 0 CommentsWell, easy: if you have ever polymerized anything, you know what can happen. Charred residues, brownish and highly viscous remains. Sticky, tacky — insoluble or unprocessable. Characterization of soot or goo is better left to your labmate. Yeah, whatever So we were talking about naming this blog after soot or goo. And we could […]
