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2016 Nobel Lectures: The lords of the ring on a fantastic voyage
Apparently it takes a Nobel Prize in chemistry for getting me back on the blog :D And I didn’t even do it…. This is a guest post from Mathieu, do you remember the Mario Bross column chromatography?...
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Fear of the Duck
“Fear of the duck, fear of the duck I have a constant fear that something’s always near Fear of the duck, fear of the duck I have a phobia that someone’s always there” Finally, after I don’t know how...
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CoverTime: Robots
How nerd are you? Can you identify the robot in this cover (without googling)? Did you get it? This is a cover from a review in ACIE from the group of Ley about machine assisted organic synthesis....
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Microfluidics Galore (and ranting)
Finally my paper on how to, in an extremely simple way, fabricate complex 3D microfluidic devices, even with external components embedded directly in the PDMS block. And let me tell you, it was not...
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ISMSC 2015 – Strasbourg
Another year, another ISMSC (International Symposium of Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry). After two years of stop I finally went back to one of my favorite conference, this year in Strasbourg....
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Few days ago, someone was complaining on the lack of chemistry related memes on the internet. Ok, ok, we have the chemistry cat, but those are pretty bad jokes (few ones are good actually. And...
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American Dad’s chemistry
Yesterday I was watching an old episode of American Dad and part of the story was set in a chemistry class…. Are the writer of American Dad as scientifically good as the one of the Simpsons or...
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Parafilm Galore
Parafilm is without any doubt the most used consumable in all the laboratories in the world. Need to seal something quickly? Parafilm! Need to repair something? Parafilm! Need to stop bleeding from a...
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Videogames and science #2 “Dying Light”
Second post from the series “Videogames and Science”. First one here. After finishing Far Cry 4 and The Walking Dead Season 2 (no science in both of them) I’m on Dying Light, an amazing free roaming...
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CoverTime: The power of Metal
One of the most “metal” cover I’ve ever seen is coming from a Chinese group: Gong’s publication on ZnO “nanopencil” featured the cover of Nanoscale. Let’s forget for one moment about the nano-whatever...
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15 reasons why NOT to date a chemist
Early this week I was reading this “dating advice” on 15 reasons why to date a chemist. Although most of their points are quite good there is always the other side of the coin…. So… 15 reasons why NOT...
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CoverTime: 80s vs 90s
Let’s start a new category: It’s CoverTime!!! The first topic of this category is ’80s versus ’90s…… In the beautiful cover for the last issue of ChemElectroChem the Spanish group headed by Ibon...
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Another TEM “problem”?
Do you remember the 2013 TEM scandal ? Well, today we may have a new one. Everything started with this post on reddit…. and in all honesty some of the pictures look little bit strange…. People are...
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Me and my thermal camera
Recently I’m working on some hot hot hot reaction and I needed something fast to monitor the heat, what better excuse to buy another toy??? I’ve got a seek thermal camera for my iphone...
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Sugru in a chemistry lab
Screaming voice from the back of the room: “What the hell is sugru????”. Sugru, my dear friend is an amazing material that has millions, if not billions, different applications, from preparing old...
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And the winners are….
I’m naturally talking about the “unknown compound competition“. Let’s crunch some numbers first: the post was viewed c.a. 1000 times, 11 chemists participated in the competition and we now have 2...
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Fast Update…. quantum dots frenziness
Just a fast update (pretty busy at the moment): Tomorrow the contest will be officially closed, so far we have 2 winners. Will you be the third???? As I’m pretty busy with teaching, here some nice...
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Holidays 2014
Another year wandering in the lab is finished. Have great holidays, eat like no one business, drink till you get great ideas and have a lot of fun. A lot of referees are waiting for your papers in...
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Unknown Compound Competition
As our paper has been accepted and it will be published soon, we decided to run a small chemistry competition. We tried to synthesize a substituted azobenzene using a literature procedure….. Naturally...
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