The Anonymous Widower

Magnetic Soap

You might say so-what as there have been magnetic soap holders for years.

But Bristol University have come up with something special, if it can be used to say clean up oil spills or waste water.

There’s a more technical explanation here in The Engineer.

Could it be that the next ten years will be decade of chemistry, as micro-electronics have ruled for too long? I have also heard that some of the new techniques used in chemistry owe a lot to chip fabrication methods. After all you could argue that a lot of chips are just a three-dimensional array of atoms.

January 24, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | News | Chemistry, Research