• Question: what have you found out from any previous experiments?

    Asked by amygreenee to Kate, Kieren, Nicola, Rowena, Roy on 10 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Rowena Fletcher-Wood

      Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      Iron does not want to stay as iron +2 and will do anything it can to lose another electron to be iron +3. That water in my molecular sieves can hugely change the chemistry and that it’s really, really hard to get out. That my sieves work to take up chromium, but not the way we had hoped, and I will have to keep working on that! That metals are very competitive with each other, and simpler materials are better at getting the job done!

    • Photo: Kate Nicholson

      Kate Nicholson answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      That if I shine lasers on black sooty materials my lab mates make their lovely samples dissapear in a poof of smoke (expected it to but not quite so easily! oops)
      That some medieval monks were very cheeky but knew more chemsitry than I do to make their pigments and have them looking fresh as a daisy 1400 years later.
      Lots more that would bore you to sleep.

    • Photo: Nicola Rogers

      Nicola Rogers answered on 10 Mar 2014:

      i found out that my luminescent gold nanoparticles can be taken in by cancer cells, and the cells still grow and behave normally with the particles inside

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