...the past two weeks of C&EN in one post:
- Count on it, we will be revisiting this Marinda Wu profile.
- Someone is complaining about purple squirrel hunts; it cannot possibly be easy to find #chemjobs in Hawaii.
- A review of a book on chemistry and WW1; someday, I will write about ACS' historical relationship with the US military.
- The World Chemical Outlook is middling, as usual; cautious optimism in fine chemicals.
- Man, I love this robot ribosome.
- This article on mechanosynthesis (in ball mills) is interesting -- I wonder if anyone has really tackled large scale (>5 kg?) mechanosynthesis industrially.
- A response on Emily Bloom's comments on the "joys" of temp jobs; they're telling jokes in C&EN!
Enjoy.
Industrial mechanosynthesis is easily done with a twin screw extruder, which scales nicely up to megatons.
ReplyDeleteAsk your friendly neighbourhood metallurgist. Ore processing chemistry is all about particle size, microhardness, crushing vs grinding, etc. The polymer guys use this kind of stuff all the time, too.
It's just one of those things that's never expanded beyond its specialized field.