13+ hour, 45+ min ago   (31+ words) Although generally glass isn't associated with touch-sensitive surfaces, the addition of an ITO (indium tin oxygen) coating adds the exciting property of not only being transparent to the visible ligh......

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (35+ words) You may or may not remember in some ancient chemistry class studying or even performing chromatography. The short definition is using media like paper or powder to separate a mixture. It is an old tec......

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (272+ words) Mechanosynthesis Of Atomic Carbon Structures Using Inverted-Mode STM Hackaday Generally chemical synthesis involves putting a variety of compounds together in an environment where they will react and self-assemble into the desired product. Direct mechanical manipulation could be significantly more effective…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (224+ words) Hackaday Generally chemical synthesis involves putting a variety of compounds together in an environment where they will react and self-assemble into the desired product Direct mechanical manipulation could be significantly more effective with synthesizing various substances This mechanosynthesis is however…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (35+ words) When light reflects off a surface, not all of it reflects off at the same wavelength; some photons impart a portion of their energy to raising the vibrational energy of the surface’s molecules, an......

4+ week, 12+ hour ago   (33+ words) Much like radio operators being encouraged to use the least possible amount of power to make a contact, chemists have a similar rule encouraging using the least amount of materials in experiments. Not......

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (34+ words) Although crude oil contains a vast diversity of hydrocarbons, a comparatively small number of these make up the bulk of demand for oil. Cracking solves this mismatch: most of the demand is for light......

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (223+ words) Hackaday A buckminsterfullerene, also known as a buckyball, is typically a fullerene consisting of sixty carbon atoms (C60) arranged in a way that resembles a football-like sphere Extending this arrangement to other types of atoms has until now however proven as…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (35+ words) Although cryocoolers are capable of pretty impressive cooling, for many of them the underlying working principle is simple enough that you do not need any special skills or a big budget to make your o......

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (30+ words) When the topic of 'electrolysis' is mentioned, people typically think of just splitting plain old dihydrogen monoxide (hydric acid: H2O) into its constituent atoms, but this barely scratches the surfa......