A Week of Experiments

Last week we started experimenting! Up until this point we had been busy making our PNEDs(photothermal nanomaterial enabled desiccants) so I was very excited to start getting data. What we have seen so far is that the carbon black has not adsorbed as much water as the silica. This problem seems to be from the nano particles blocking the water adsorption. Oh well, we still have to see how the gold rods and cubes do.

The experiments take 10 hours to complete, most of that time is a lot of waiting. Since I am right behind Roberto’s lab he keeps me company.

The second part of our experiment is desorbtion which is done under a sun lamp, in Roberto’s lab. To prevent a sun burn I have to be all suited up.

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