January 3, 2008: Nano-explosions?

borisivan · 01-03-2008, 08:58 AM

..... I for one embrace our new orange cauliflower volcano overlords.

Sheldonrs · 01-03-2008, 09:09 AM

Eh. You can see the same thing whenever you pop a pimple.

glatt · 01-03-2008, 09:11 AM

Is that just a fancy way of saying these are imperfections in an electroplating job?

xoxoxoBruce · 01-03-2008, 10:09 AM

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"It's a reminder that nanoscale research can have unpredicted consequences at a high level," Beron says.

Funny thing about those "unpredicted consequences" the scientists, and politicians, keep discovering.

barefoot serpent · 01-03-2008, 10:16 AM

meh... that orange cauliflower is so 2007

Gravdigr · 01-03-2008, 08:47 PM

This color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph shows an array of CoFeB nanowires, grown by pulse-current electrodeposition in a nanoporous alumina template. During the electrodeposition process, some of the nanowires overflowed on the template surface. "It's a reminder that nanoscale research can have unpredicted consequences at a high level," Beron says.

To quote the Geico caveman: "Uh...What???

SPUCK · 01-04-2008, 04:27 AM

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Originally Posted by borisivan

..... I for one embrace our new orange cauliflower volcano overlords.

THAT! Was choice...

Welcome borisivan.

Common the rest of you!!!

CoFeB = Cobalt Iron Boron

Back to 7th grade with the lot of you...

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borisivan Fellow-Commoner Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 10	...... ..... I for one embrace our new orange cauliflower volcano overlords.

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Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	This color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph shows an array of CoFeB nanowires, grown by pulse-current electrodeposition in a nanoporous alumina template. During the electrodeposition process, some of the nanowires overflowed on the template surface. "It's a reminder that nanoscale research can have unpredicted consequences at a high level," Beron says. To quote the Geico caveman: "Uh...What???

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