09/03/10 @ 1:37PM EST
posted by will

Everything looks more epic with a desert horizon in the background, right? Also, excimer brought to my attention a great tumblr full of entertaining abstracts: TOCROFL. I can't be expected to keep up with them, so supplement your Will and Beyond reading.

(Also, as sam from everyday scientist points out, if you subscribe to any ACS journals via RSS, they switched over to using Feedburner, so you'll have to go through and resubscribe manually.  They could have at least sent out a last warning post via the feed...)

[Image: Nano Letters]

Twirly 'neath blue sky
But where is the sand texture
Long ass graphene strain

Godspeed.

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06/21/10 @ 3:46PM EST
posted by will

How do drugs work? Well, they scare away diseases of course!
Targeting Isoprenoid Biosynthesis for Drug Discovery: Bench to Bedside

This one's just pretty; the graph in the ocean is a nice touch.
Iron-Catalyzed Hydrogen Production from Formic Acid

[Image: ACS]
[Image: ACS]

Both of my abstracts
Have been boring so far
Next must be awesome

Godspeed.

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01/22/10 @ 12:33PM EST
posted by will

Chemistry of Materials just published: Symbiotic Coaxial Nanocables: Facile Synthesis and an Efficient and Elegant Morphological Solution to the Lithium Storage Problem.

Symbiosis leads to the yin-yang I suppose, and that's a cool picture of the coaxial nanocable (carbon nanotube coated with TiO₂.)

Lithium storage
Yin and yang, very zen-like
Pretty cable too

Godspeed.

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09/21/09 @ 11:59AM EST
posted by will

Working with compounds that are called sandwich complexes must produce a giggle every now and then, and probably make you hungrier than most chemistry. When you have an absurd abstract image like this, it's taking it to a whole new level:

How often do you get to put a bear (I think it is at least...) and a bow tie into a chemistry paper.

[Image: Inorganic Chemistry]

Sandwich complexes
Yummy transition metals
A chemical lunch

Godspeed.

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07/20/09 @ 2:10PM EST
posted by will

After browsing through the journals in my RSS reader, I came across an abstract image from Inorg. Chem. that had a dinosaur in it. I assumed that it would be the winner hands-down. I mean, c'mon they overlaid a pterodactyl on their molecule!

However, Nano Letters blew me away:

I will leave it at that. Your move, CBC.

[Image: Inorganic Chemistry]
[Image: Nano Letters]

Abstract images
Fun for the whole family
And for dinosaurs

Godspeed.

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04/14/09 @ 9:56AM EST
posted by will

In many papers, the abstract image comes from one of the figures in the paper. Not always, sometimes it's an image that summarizes many of the figures or trends from the paper.

Or you can be awesome and have an iguana that's thinking about different aspects of magnetism.

[Image: Inorganic Chemistry]

Hmm, an iguana?
That would make a good abstract
Unrelated? Meh.

Godspeed.

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04/04/09 @ 5:02PM EST
posted by will

The last post in this series also had a mouse in it; I guess I'm drawn to vermin. Even though this one doesn't have a sweet mouse ass, it does have a pretty gnarly purple tumor.

Oh, and happy 404 day. Here are some good 404 pages from Smashing Magazine, and here's mine.

[Image: Nano Letters]

Error: Page Not Found
Error: Tumor is purple
Happy 404

Godspeed.

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01/28/09 @ 6:00PM EST
posted by will

There doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about the content from this article. Quantum dots are fun, bioimaging is a very common application for them.

I'm not sure why this image amuses me so much. Is this a molecular-sized mouse, or a mouse-sized molecule?  'Sugar' written on the mouse's ass, and the giant white box around his enormous liver definitely add to it.

Giant molecules?
Molecular animal?
Mice with quantum dots

Godspeed.

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08/06/08 @ 11:15AM EST
posted by will

The Gardinier group at Marquette Univ. have developed a new pentadentate ligand alpha,alpha,alpha',alpha'-tetra(pyrazolyl)lutidine. They just published their first paper in Inorganic Chemistry about it, and it will be the first in a series. It's made by four pyridines bound to another pyridine and a couple of tertiary or quaternary carbons, resulting in the five nitrogens of the pyridines being available for binding. Their abstract image is below; I approve. It reminds me of the image which appears in my head when I think about the Scorpionates by Trofimenko.

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