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Old 01-03-2008, 08:56 AM   #1
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January 3, 2008: Nano-explosions?



I say explosions, the official caption says explosions... but they aren't really explosions, they just look like it, in this nano-scale photograph. I'm not even sure nano-scale is a word, or a hyphenated word, so you can bet that the following quote, explaining the shot, just perplexes me. But the photo, by one Fanny Beron, won first place in the Materials Research Society "Science as Art" competition. And it's cool!

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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.
Found here, used with permission of the Materials Research Society, photo credit Fanny Beron.
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Old 01-03-2008, 08:58 AM   #2
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..... I for one embrace our new orange cauliflower volcano overlords.
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Old 01-03-2008, 09:09 AM   #3
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Eh. You can see the same thing whenever you pop a pimple.
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Old 01-03-2008, 09:11 AM   #4
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Is that just a fancy way of saying these are imperfections in an electroplating job?
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Old 01-03-2008, 10:09 AM   #5
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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.
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Old 01-03-2008, 10:16 AM   #6
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meh... that orange cauliflower is so 2007
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Old 01-03-2008, 08:47 PM   #7
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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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Old 01-04-2008, 04:27 AM   #8
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..... 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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Old 01-04-2008, 04:42 AM   #9
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I seriously need to get out more....I thought I was gonna see an iPod nano exploding.
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Old 01-04-2008, 04:52 AM   #10
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Common the rest of you!!!
CoFeB = Cobalt Iron Boron

Back to 7th grade with the lot of you...
Yeah....we'll see you after recess when you've finished your English class :p
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