Finally made good gold nanoshells and gold nanoparticles that actually dried! Even more exciting, I got to see those particles under a scanning electron microscope!! I can tell you, if you’ve never seen how these machines work, you’re missing out. I am excited to show these to my students and explain how I got these images 🙂 Thank you Oara and Andres for taking the time to teach me so much!
I even got to see the infrared spectrometer and see how the spectrum compares to the Raman spectra. Thank you to all that made it possible for me to have this experience. Truly AMAZING! So much more work to be done!! And only 2 weeks left 🙁
Great work and for graphing you are having separate program like in my lab I am using Isobat software.
This is awesome! Love how you have all your pictures and data organized. Now the scanning electric microscope, what exactly does it show? I see the nanoparticles but are we looking at bonds or ions or what exactly?