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.