• Papers from my talk

    So you didn’t manage to get a picture of all the slides or I went to fast- well here are the key papers that were mentioned in my talk. Those in red are our data and those in black are background. FIB periodic table This was taken from the Roadmap for FIB Technologies, demonstrating what…

  • Cyanotype Science

    cyanotype from Ancient Greek: κυάνεος, kyáneos ‘darkblue’ and τύπος, týpos ‘mark, impression, type’ is a slow-reacting, economical photographic printing formulation sensitive to the near ultraviolet light. It produces a monochrome, blue coloured print. Being the Photon Science Institute outreach champion, we have started to bring in some hands on demonstrations of how we use light. One thing that has gained much intreast is the cyanotype…

  • Life as a Technical Speaclist

    I realised I hadn’t introduced myself, or who I am, or what I do! So as good a time as any. Who am I? Not to give my CV (you can find that in for the record), but my journey has been from chemistry to EEE and now I guess I call myself a materials…

  • Uniquely You

    Dyslexia noun a condition of neurodevelopmental origin that mainly affects the ease with which a person reads, writes, and spells, typically recognized as a specific learning disorder in children, and possibly one of the hardest words for someone who has it to spell. Its Dyslexics Awareness week #DAW24 is this week, 07 October – 12 October 2023. Being…

  • Science Games Night

    There is nothing quite like a physical game. I was all for online games during lockdown. My sister and I used to play Tee oder Kaffee, that’s Tea or Coffee in German, for many hours. It was the easiest game we could find in tabletopia. Full disclosure, we aren’t the most techno savvy and that about…

  • Royal Summer Summer Exhibit

    Its been a week since I returned, have I recovered yet? No. Will I ever?……who knows. Like many things in life you can look back in fondness and only see the positives (of which there were many), but I guess I wanted to document my experience and my hints and tips for those wishing to…

  • The Purest Silicon in THE WORLD!

    Avogadro constant 6.022 × 10²³ the number of atoms in a mole Firstly lets date this- you never know when the next purest silicon may come along. It is April 2024 and we have produced the purest silicon in the world. Fact. Peer Reviewed. In the bank. Pass the Guinness world record (alas there is…

  • Izzy Jones’s Quantum World

    For second time in my life I have been immortalised in caricature (the first being IOP limtless campaign where I got to be a superhero!). This time, less of a hero but a friendly face I hope in a book called, Izzy Jones’s Quantum World. As part of the NAME grant, we were given the…

  • It’s all connected, a wish of a vacuum scientist

    No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main – John Donne 1624 Connectivity is key to science. Whether is it the bringing together of ideas or people, the connections we make spur on science and enable our community to function and work…

  • Über Paper

    Über German “over”, “above” or “across” We have an academic paper coming out. I will pop it at the end, but don’t feel obliged to read. Its a bit of a slog, not because its badly written, its just, well, an academic paper. But let me give you the story and maybe you might just…

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