Showing posts with label autumn nanoschool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label autumn nanoschool. Show all posts

Monday, 3 October 2016

welovescience

working with notes made last week - a 'found' text.....

nano structures often process a large degree of fabrication randomness

Who are we?
We are atomic force microscopy.
We are fluid analytics looking for equity for value.
We are biomechanics exploring mechanical stress transfer.
We are the orbital angular momentum of light but it's okay because graphine is not conductive and we can get from hydrophobic to hydrophilic using UV light to change and monitor, its a controlled release, the gas sensors  detecting plasmodic enhancement.
We are a growing Penrose tessellation, an idea before its time like raman scattering spectroscopy before it.
We are an arrangement of macromolecules, themselves  molecular crystals with DNA, these are optically driven like the structure of scientific revolution.
Our plasmodic responders create meta materials which lead to nano particle jewellery, nano knitting needles or a self cleaning fabric with luminescent down shifting with hydrophobic or even superhydrophobicity containers self emptying, it's a solution based problem.
Looking for a reason we use paperbased polymers, a nano substrait or maybe we need to explore the lithium market to create a clean box or water filtration, its sustainable insect technology .
Thinking can we get a functionalised electromagnet, a nanogenerator possibly made with hierarachical carbon nanotubes using advanced bio-nanomaterials.
We are interested in fundamentals this is why we are here.
We are looking for tangible results in the crystal growth of novel nanomaterials whilst experiencing ambient vibrations in the piezoelectric materials which are creative and innovative.
We acknowledge the Von Neumann bottleneck.
We are often genetically engineered by mimicking hierarchal natural structures.
We balance toxic substrates creating active spaces like nanometer cubed using nanophotonics and single molecule chemistry but remembering that efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. It's  like an e-skin integrated by weaving hetero structures developing a technological readiness level  from basic principles to operational.
We are involved in bionano engineering,  where bio meets inorganic? But what happens when a virus meets a nano particle? DNA is a polymer often extracted and connected using photochemistry in optofluidic microreactors exploring lightmatter interactions.
Often photonic scattered light interferes through a hollow core, the  photonic crystal fibre celebrating optofluidic through the creation of tools enabling the ability to measure things through light, leading to reaction monitoring - designing optical appearance with natural polymers.
It's important that we review progress constantly engaging in self reflective thought supported by our gantt charts that we update daily. If we haven't found a problem we haven't tried hard enough. We often experience glorious failures which are underpinned by hard work and when looking at the space between often cell morphology and substrate stiffness generate acoustic waves.
We worry that we don't have the bandwidth to do this task sensing using acoustic waves, possibly using a floating control which utilizes frequency tuning  and magnetic acoustics.
It has to be neurological,  neurofunctional where micro fluidic or artificial photosynthesis, self assemble exhibiting algal bacterial mutualisms, from unbalance to balance its microbial using micro dots or quantum dots.
We simplify to understand our role, providing solutions and storytelling often using micro electrical mechanical systems and optomechanofluidics.
but


all this is underpinned by serious fiddling about 

Sunday, 2 October 2016

reflectingonstuff

Wow - back and beginning to reflect on the week - there will be more thoughts later - I was party to so many wonderful conversations - one story told to me has stayed - i loved the reason why she became a scientist  -  looking at a book, feeling its surface, looking at it, really looking - getting a microscope - the microscopes became more powerful - this to an exposure to ideas of quantum physics and then an understanding of electro-static repulsion between electrons and the phenomena that we never actually truly touch anything.... truly mind blowing and then one of the many questions after my presentation - if we take the premise that as humans we are all books and if we are alive the book in question is unfinished. What format would you use to represent this phenomena? this why I am here.......already I have so much to think about. The assumption that science is a block of knowledge was quickly broken down after a few conversations - it transpires that I was surrounded by people that also had little or no understanding of what is being spoken in the numerous talks - the specifity of the individual fields has atomised the world we inhabit. When typing up my notes most it is challenged by the underlining red line of disbelief that is spell-check - its as if the archaic framework of words even within the technology of word processing  is yet to approve of the new frontier like Zeno's paradox attempting to catch up with science. Entering into a world of science has enabled a degree of reflection on my own practice. Science rather than being about magic appears to be all about making sense of the natural world around us whilst the arts and the world I have evolved in is involved in the creation of imagined places which we inhabit and then tell stories from within. The making of tools to map, examine and explore is at the core of what nanoDTC appears to be involved in. I'm looking forward to making tools to navigate this new world.

Wednesday, 28 September 2016

problemsolvingwithcolouredpaper

yesterday ran a problem solving workshop at the NanoDTC  Autumn School. As has been illustrated and proved over and over again this week everybody works to make things happen - constantly looking for solutions and creating a quite energizing air of positivity. So the workshop could not fail to work because the participants were so excellent. Models of structures were visualized, hybridized, collaborated on, built and rebuilt through the guiding hand of oblique strategies.  http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html it really was a good worshop. To revisit the talk about my work follow the link - http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/talk-for-nano-autumn-school-revised-with-links-to-films

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

weareherewhatisitwedo?

in the middle of the Autumn nanoschool and just acclimatising myself the world I am entering - trying to...... grasp an understanding of individuals research, work out how groups and science as a collaborative exercise functions, make connections with people I may contact later and explain my presence - so what is it YOU do? - finding the correct words that will land the idea on both sides has been interesting and I have valued individuals perseverance when trying to explain what they do to somebody not in their world - there is a language beyond the words - an approach... my last formal science experience was  as a 15 year old rejecting it for the arts - I have met many who have had the same experience through the education system but with science at the fore. But equally I have found that we have many things in common - a desire to ask questions, to communicate, to make sense of the world - some fundamental ideas - but as I have been told - this is what we are here for... I have been so impressed by the amount of work asked of and undertaken by everybody.