Comments on: Nanobliss: now with extra audacity, hope and change!

Nanobliss: now with extra audacity, hope and change!

kosem — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:31:29 -0800

Nanobliss "Nanobliss is a gallery of visualizations of small-scale structures of carbon nanotubes and silicon, created by John Hart." I came for the awesome Nanobamas [Flickr set here], but was impressed enough with the rest to share the whole. Enjoy---particularly the informative techniques page. At the very least, have a look at some of the pretty nano pictures.

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:40:39 -0800

This is very cool. Takes me back to the first time I saw electron microscope images as a kid, how eerie and otherworldly things like the surface of a housefly's eye looked. Only now ... with Obama!

By: Kronos_to_Earth

Kronos_to_Earth — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:55:36 -0800

Nanobliss indeed! Thank you very much!

By: hortense

hortense — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:08:09 -0800

Girl with a pearl earring in protein

By: mediareport

mediareport — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:11:46 -0800

Good lord, wow. This is why I love MeFi. Thanks, kosem.

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:12:45 -0800

Walk without rhythm, and you won't attract the worm.

By: Tube

Tube — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:28:33 -0800

I didn't know carbon nanotubes could be created by chemical vapor deposition. Clearly I haven't been keeping up. I've heard of DLC, or "Diamond-like carbon", which as far as I can tell does not involve nanotubes. The most amazing use of chemical vapor deposition is this application (from Wikipedia) Virtually all of the multi-bladed razors used for wet shaving have the edges coated with hydrogen-free DLC to reduce friction, preventing abrasion of sensitive skin. I'm hoping to live long enough to see jet-black cables or tapes of carbon nanotubes in bulk commercial quantity. This is a fantastic post, and may I suggest the inclusion of the "microscopy" tag?

By: sergeant sandwich

sergeant sandwich — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:47:17 -0800

yeah, tube (hah.. name): i think most CNTs are grown by some variant of CVD anymore as it's really by far the most controllable and you get very uniform growth (as you can see). and, my own wee contribution to the carbon nanotube microscopy fun: under the sea

By: XMLicious

XMLicious — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:43:14 -0800

Y'know what he should have done? Created a nano-violin. So you could show it to whiners and say, do you see? It plays for you!

By: crapmatic

crapmatic — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:21:29 -0800

U.S. Patent Office Application #583128539 | Microscopic Violin Producing Melody For Unfortunate Individual

By: cashman

cashman — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:57:48 -0800

The Big Picture joins in. And some of these are a little scary. Get it, little scary?...sorry.

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:06:38 -0800

I like Absolut Nano but it gives me just the tiniest headache.