I’m at Creighton University in Omaha, NE for the 2011 AAPT Summer Meeting. There tends to be a lot of down time during these things, so I’ll probably kill time blogging about the things I find interesting. I decide that I would stay in the dorms this time around, so that I could save my [...]
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Tags: AAPT, Ed Prather, epistemology, Omaha, smartPhysics
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It took an entire bag of Sweet Sixteens and a full day of stirring, filtering, and baking. However, it appears that we have been successful in our first attempt at extracting TiO2 nanoparticles from powdered sugar doughnuts.
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Tags: nanoparticles, photodetector, photovoltaics, powdered doughnuts, powdered sugar doughnuts, solar panel, thin films, TiO2, titanium dioxide
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