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in-FXXXKing credible!!!!
Another day, another paper…. Finally papers are getting closer to the real lab life, and sooner or later I’ll be free to publish all the cursing I’m generally doing in the lab. The paper is...
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Protruding Nanoballs Vs Recessional Nanosuckers
Using “Protruding Nanoballs” and “Recessional Nanosuckers” in the same title is not something easily achievable. Luckily someone managed to do it: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl4048042 In the...
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The 5 stages of grieving a rejection
I’m naturally talking about papers/grants/prizes/applications/orders rejection. Open you email and search for “regret” and “pleased” and you will unequivocally see that “regret to inform you”...
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some journals….
Because we reviwed the papers, not the webpage…. Shall we put a star on micropump. Why not?
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some journals 2
Please, please, please, when you are little bit depressed read this paper : http://innovativejournal.in/index.php/jpro/article/view/678 , it’s a laughing-tears-paper (LTP). It should have dealt with...
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CoverTime: 80s vs 90s
Let’s start a new category: It’s CoverTime!!! The first topic of this category is ’80s versus ’90s…… In the beautiful cover for the last issue of ChemElectroChem the Spanish group headed by Ibon...
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CoverTime: The power of Metal
One of the most “metal” cover I’ve ever seen is coming from a Chinese group: Gong’s publication on ZnO “nanopencil” featured the cover of Nanoscale. Let’s forget for one moment about the nano-whatever...
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Parafilm Galore
Parafilm is without any doubt the most used consumable in all the laboratories in the world. Need to seal something quickly? Parafilm! Need to repair something? Parafilm! Need to stop bleeding from a...
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Microfluidics Galore (and ranting)
Finally my paper on how to, in an extremely simple way, fabricate complex 3D microfluidic devices, even with external components embedded directly in the PDMS block. And let me tell you, it was not...
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CoverTime: Robots
How nerd are you? Can you identify the robot in this cover (without googling)? Did you get it? This is a cover from a review in ACIE from the group of Ley about machine assisted organic synthesis....
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