Tag Archives: silver

Light-amplifying resin boosts invisibility cloaks

Posted on September 3, 2010 by admin

Metamaterials can bend light around objects to render them near-invisible, but they absorb so much light in the process that objects cannot be flawlessly disguised – they are revealed by the dimness of the metamaterial. Vladimir Shalaev at Purdue University … Continue reading →

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Coloured lights sculpt nanoparticles

Posted on February 13, 2010 by admin

From New Scientist: Kevin Stamplecoskie and Juan Scaiano at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada, can grow silver particles shaped as hexagons, rods, triangles, spheres or dodecahedrons by shining green, red, orange, violet and blue light on the liquid … Continue reading →

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Lunar Influence on the Electrochemical Production of Colloidal Silver

Posted on January 20, 2010 by admin

The Subtle influence planets and other heavenly bodies exert on metals through gravity and sympathetic tuning never ceases to intrigue me when I think along the lines of Alchemy and Nanotechnology: Lunar Influence on the Electrochemical Production of Colloidal Silver … Continue reading →

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