Thursday, December 11, 2008

Overkill

I know that the journal is called Nano Letters, but using the "nano" prefix three times in the title of a paper is a little extreme.

7 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:25 AM

    Hehe, indeed. Also in the abstract the prefix can be found in almost every 8th word (18 times.

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  2. Anonymous7:15 AM

    Five times "nano" in the title:
    http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0712.0264

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  3. agggh...need...more...funding...

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  4. Anonymous10:14 AM

    Lightweights! Pico-diddle periodic giant cavities of metal-organic frameworks. Nature 427 523 (2004), Adv. Funct. Mater. 16 520 (2006), Scripta Mater. 56 809 (2007).

    DOE H2-storage whores, PhD pilfered your funding. Plate cavities with semiconductor or supercon and party. Electrolessly intercalate zirconium phosphonate planes. Low temps and high magnetic fields for confinement; get jiggy.

    Rules have changed. Professionally managed research has process not product as king. Give Satan a big, er, small wet kiss.

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  5. Anonymous2:16 PM

    The worst title in the history of Nano Letters is, and always will be, this Britney Spears-inspired title:
    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl060177c

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  6. Anonymous2:54 PM

    I count 5 instances of the prefix in the first sentence of the abstract!

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  7. Anonymous9:11 PM

    Gah. They really want funding dont they. If I used this as a NSF GRFP, then I so would've won. Damnit!

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