2022 is here and with it comes its share of good resolutions. Here is one of them: to blog regularly during this year.
I have entitled it “A matter of…” and I will try to talk about what I like most in my research: materials. The subjects will be varied: laboratory sessions, images that I have seen and that I like, techniques, thoughts, history of science…
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Foundry Labwork
I am an associate professor at the university, this means that I am both a researcher and teacher. I spend half of my time at the university doing research and the other half teaching (there are also several other half devoted to administrative work which makes me sad, but that’s another story). For the teaching part, I do it at…
How do self-tests work?
The idea is very simple and I’ll try to describe it with the help of some illustrations: the cotton swab that goes into your nose allows you to collect all the droppings in which the nasty virus aka the antigen would be entangled. Because yes: the test you do at the pharmacy and the one you do at home are…
Seeing atoms
Everyone has heard of atoms. We know they exist, I will tell you another time how we became convinced of their existence. What I can say is that it was in the 19th century and that at that time there was no way to be convinced of their existence by seeing them. This gave rise to many scientific and philosophical…
Nano fabrication
A nanometre is one billionth of a metre, a hair cut 100,000 times, in short, it’s so small that you can’t see it or feel it. Yet nano is made all day long all over the world. Nano is all around us. As I write these words, I am using my computer, whose processor and screen are full of nano…