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...)
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
After jury duty today, as I was walking back to the metro, I passed by the American Art Museum, and decided to stop in since it was still early. It was made in 1987 by Mike Wilkins and they're all real license plates.
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.
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!
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.
