New Techniques learned in the lab

Hello everyone

It’s been almost a month and a half working on my research. I would say that the technique that I had to learned (by force) is trial and error and to be very very patient. I say all of this because be dicovered last week that there is someone wrong with the reactant being used because they are not producing the same product they did last semester. So it means that all we’ve done this semester probably was in vane. So now we’re just trying to make the same products we did last semester that we know exactly how to do it and what are the products. But all trials we’ve done they always react in a different way. So we are just trying to figure out wich reactants are damaged.

If i had to scale the achievement in this semester from 1-5, i sadly would have to say  maybe a 2 because of what i just said.

I’ll make sure to keep you informed of what happend during this months.

Take Care

Jaime Velez

A New Semester, A New Experience, right?

Hey it’s me again.

A whole new semester has come so you would think I should be doing a whole new kind of research under my investigation. Well I have bad news, well at least until mid-September. While we were hoping to do the quantum dots (QD) by the end of the last semester, after some analysis made by one of the graduate student, we discover that the particles created weren’t quantum dots, they were nano-particles. The difference between them is the size. Quantum dots are 1-10nm while nano-particles are from 1-100nm. The sizes of what we did were 20-50nm. So this semester hopefully by mid-September is to reduce their sizes by using different types of solvents. After that we are going to put this QD into the protein that we are focused on. If it goes all well, we might use others organic compounds like sugars.

That is in general what we are planning to do this semester but if there is an changes I promise to tell you.

take care.