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James Akers

I coated a bunch of the good tubes I had around, re stretching the ones with thick ends, before cleaning, and then dumping in my liquid phosphor lacquer so it would flow down half the tube, then letting it dry.
On solid color tubes I use a shop vac along with a 3d printed vacuum to glass tube adaptor to make an apparatus where you can suck the phosphor out of the jar by placing it beneath the tube and putting your finger over a hole in the glass adaptor (blocking the opening) . So the phosphor gets sucked up the tube, then you remove your finger when it gets to the top and it falls back down into the jar.

I used up all of those nice mixes. I am excited to mix more to coat the tubes we make on Monday. I already ordered more solvents. Then I wanna rent a kiln to bake a bunch out at once.

I am very excited for that Gold Pink! Gold turns glass pink. In pursuit of the pinkest pink neon, I am backing the pink glass with pink :)

Phosphor leaking out onto the floor. I really should build some sort of catcher through/ It sure does look neat seeing it swirl around like that.
A gold pink, with the UV C color checker held up to its end, revealing the intense pink from the filtered pink phosphorr. Really excited for this one!
A bunch of glass tubes in various colors. lengths and sizes leaning up against a white brick wall with white paint leaking from the bottom of all the tubes.
The tubes on the table before coating any of them.
#color#neon#diy
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

In effort to ease #ReturnToOffice Mandates: #Offices Ditch Harsh #Fluorescent Lights.
Offices nationwide are ditching harsh fluorescent lighting in favor of advanced systems designed to improve cognitive function and entice remote workers back to physical workplaces. Companies are investing in circadian-tuned lighting that adjusts intensity and color temperature throughout the day to mimic natural light patterns, syncing with employees' biological rhythms, says WSJ.
msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-

www.msn.comMSN
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James Akers

More birthday prep-

I decided to make myself a fancy hat! Inspired by the "boater" hats of the 1920s, the design is simple and made of just 3 circles- with one of them bent to the profile of my head.

I bent it almost entirely out of scraps- even using some donated electrodes and side tubulating it- just like they would have done in the 1920s.

Hey, I am using mercury in the production of this hat just like those mad hatters. Although I am using only one drop- dispensed with a hemetrically sealed glass and teflon injector :).

I underfilled it to just 5 torr (instead of the usual 9) so there will be less resistance and longer battery life- with the tradeoff of shorter tube life- I dont need this to last 75 years anyways :)

I might add "B-DAY" to the front if I have time.

A selfie with me wearing the boater
The hat sitting on the edge of the table- the final middle weld hanging off the table so it doesn't cool unevenly.
half circle sitting on the tube cooling rack after I added the side mercury trap tubulation- broken glass box pit visible in the background
The hat lit on the aging table- side tubulated mercury trap visible, pink top circle and warm white bottom circles
#neon#hat#hatter
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Das

Sorry to learn of the passing of Prof. Alan Waggoner here in #Pittsburgh a couple of days ago.
He was an all round terrific person, besides being a great scientist. He developed the #Fluorescent Cyanine dyes (Cy3 Cy5 and others in the series) that had a significant impact on biological #imaging , in the 1990s

An #obituary is here:
freyvogelfuneralhome.com/obitu

Here's a pic I took (in 2018) of the licence plate that used to be in the Molecular Biosensors Imaging Center

Pennyslyvania license plate that has CY3 CY5 as the number
Picture of Alan Wagonner, with his warm smile (I don't think I've ever seen him not smiling like this or more)
#Chemistry#Biology#Science
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katch wreck

`We report a fluorinated azido-coumarin scaffold which enables #photolabeling under fast and mild activation, and which can leave a #fluorescent tag on crosslinked species. Coupling this scaffold to an α-fucoside, we demonstrate fluorogenic photolabeling of #glycan-#protein interactions over a wide range of affinities. We expect this strategy to be broadly applicable to other #chromophores and we envision that such “fluoro-crosslinkers” could become important tools`

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

From #glowing #cats to #wombats, #fluorescent #mammals are much more common than you’d think theconversation.com/from-glowi

All-a-glow: spectral characteristics confirm widespread fluorescence for mammals royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

"We wanted to know if the #glow reported recently for various species was really #fluorescence, and how widespread this phenomenon was. We obtained preserved and frozen specimens from #museums and #wildlife parks to study."

A selection of glowing mammal specimens in a museum collection: A) polar bear, B) southern marsupial mole, C) greater bilby, D) mountain zebra, E) bare-nosed wombat, F) six-banded armadillo, G) orange leaf-nosed bat, H) quenda, I) leopard, J) Asian palm civet, K) red fox, L) dwarf spinner dolphin.
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