Due to concerns that were brought up at our last meeting regarding our procedure differences for our templated and non-templated beads, it was recommended that all beads produced would undergo the same processes and procedures. This made all the non-templated beads I prepared previously unusable for our jar tests so I have to make more.
while it is a pain having to redo something, it did give me a chance to create this awesome slow-motion video on our bead production.
We make our beads by loading a syringe with our acidic gel and using a syringe pump to slowly drip gel our of the needle tip which produces gel droplets. The droplets fall into a stirring base solution and basic titration precipitates our beads. The stirring motion helps keep the droplets in a spherical shape. After stirring the beads are filtered from our solution, rinsed with DI water, and allowed to air dry.
Enjoying the outdoors.
How are you enjoying the outdoors right now!?!?!?
On my bike?
The heat doesn’t bother you?!