Collaborate Disseminate
Sometimes claimed to give you wings, energy drinks can, at the very least, be used to make rockets fly. This is what [Nate Scovill] did in a recent video, where …read more Continue reading Turning Energy Drinks Into Rocket Fuel
Of all innovations adopted by the maker community within the past couple of decades, one stands among the rest on top for anything regarding manufacturing. It goes without saying here …read more Continue reading Is Now the Time for Volumetric 3D Printing?
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 …read more Continue reading Microdistillery for Microchemistry
There always seem to be a handful of revolutionary technologies perpetually out of reach: fusion energy, quantum computers, and full self-driving cars are always in this list, and it seems …read more Continue reading Solid-State Batteries Take to the Sky
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 …read more Continue reading Introducing Boron Buckyballs
Plastics, oil, petrol– the modern world is entirely dependent on hydrocarbons. The good sources are slowly running low and supply is increasingly complicated by geopolitical factors we really don’t want …read more Continue reading Be Your Own Oil Company With Desktop Fischer-Tropsch Process
Batteries are notoriously difficult pieces of technology to deal with reliably. They often need specific temperatures, charge rates, can’t tolerate physical shocks or damage, and can fail catastrophically if all …read more Continue reading Battery Tester Outperforms Cheaper Options
Although rare-earth elements (REEs) are not very rare, their recovery and purification is very cumbersome, with no significant concentrations that would help with mining. This does contribute to limiting their …read more Continue reading Virus-Based Thermoresponsive Separation of Rare-Earth Elements
One major reason for the high cost of developing new drugs and other chemicals is the sheer number of experiments involved; designing a single new drug can require synthesizing and …read more Continue reading Building a Multi-Channel Pipette for Parallel Experimentation
As the saying goes, “if it can’t be grown, it has to be mined”– but what about all the metals that have already been wrested from the bosom of the …read more Continue reading e-Waste and Waste Oil Combine to Make Silver