nanoscale views

Now this is a modest proposal whose time has come. It's common that experimental physicists gradually (or not so gradually) accumulate...

Two new papers in Nano Letters caught my eye. Danilov et al ., " Nanoelectromechanical switch operating by tunneling of an entire C60 m...

I understand that the folks at CERN feel like it's important for people to be aware of the LHC and get excited about it - at this point,...

I could've predicted this. Given current energy concerns, it's not at all surprising that the various media are ready to give airti...

I'll be traveling (work + vacation), so blogging will be slow until July 15 or so. Before I go, I wanted to point out that the plot cont...

Recently I've had some conversations with a couple of people, including someone involved in journalism, about what makes a physics exper...

Thanks to Tom for having a link on his page to this . Too true! This is also brilliant. Good to have a laugh, despite the passing of Ge...

I wasn't going to even mention the idea of a Singularity , but then the IEEE made a point of dedicating an issue of their magazine to t...

My university is in the design phase on a new physics building. This is exciting - first, it's a rare opportunity to design new lab spa...

Posting from the scenic Newark International Airport.... I just finished attending the 2008 international workshop, ESPMI-08 - Electronic S...

So, if crude oil futures cost at least $126/42 gallon barrel these days, doesn't that imply that the raw starting material for gasoline ...

Remember my discussion of plagiarism? Remember how a couple of readers didn't seem to thing that this was necessarily that big a deal, ...

Summer writing and travel are eating my blogging time a bit, and I've also agreed to write the occasional nano-related blurb for the ACS...

Once again (and it seems like this happens every couple of years ) someone is claiming "success" in a cold fusion experiment. Ba...

Two papers from the past week that caught my eye.... arxiv:0805.3309 - Bunch et al ., Impermeable atomic membranes from graphene sheets Thi...

I want to alert faculty colleagues to a website of which they need to be aware if they teach, particularly undergraduates. I won't link...

There's no question that one of these would be useful to have in the lab. Check out the whole catalog of their products - fun for all ...

A couple of interesting papers, two about graphene and one about a weird fluid mechanics effect. arxiv:0805.1830 - Bolotin et al ., Tempera...

In contrast to the previous post, there have been some fun parts of the job lately. Today was commencement, which is always amusing - I get...

Amazingly, there are graduate-level students out there who do not understand this simple, basic fact. When you're writing a scholastic ...