Saturday, 8 December 2018

New Scientist 1 Dec_2

The article about training T cells on the Glandular Fever virus seems to be so hard to believe. It contrasts diametrically with the relating heart disease to if your flesh is candied in the years leading up.

The article on Hygroelectricity seems really flakey. I haven't been able to source much further information on this, which is unusual if it were a mainstream idea. Graphene Oxide is real and just amazing. Little oxygen atoms and the like dipping into the pi orbitals of graphene. It certainly does not disappoint as a novel material, or one I had not heard of before. A GO membrane admits water but not oxygen or nitrogen (applications just flood my mind) . It is also highly optically non linear so is used to protect against high power laser pulses. Again there are so many applications out there so there must be some major draw back. It is absolutely begging to be made into a meta material. It is highly absorbent of water and in surfactants sits in the boundary layers between liquids.

I must admit carbon is an element that keeps giving, I love IPC what an absolute trooper.

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