Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[sutra]

Could Graphite be useful to organize the layers of the nematic crystal?

check this page out....http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=20275193
and this http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/nalefd/2002/2/i11/abs/nl025694j.html

....and....this: http://www.lci.kent.edu/PI/Jakli/Pics/Presentations/2005/Halevi70%20Puebla%202005.pdf
I think I've been inspired....


Cheers

[JRowe]

I think that what we need to do, in order to guide experimentation, is to create a hypothesis that is testable. It may speed things up, and it may codify results in a way that leads to refinement or even branching out of workable concepts. I just bought some Alunite crystals, which I'll be using for an Alum matrix. I want to learn as much as I can, first, and then define my hypothesis very concretely.

I'd like to ask some other people to delineate the necessary conditions for the Casimir Effect.

In my understanding, it requires two uncharged metal plates with a vacuum between them. The larger the surface area, and the smaller the distance between the plates, the greater the Casimir force. There must be no external electromagnetic field.

Try testing your crystals inside a Faraday cage. This eliminates potential energy harvesting from EM sources, as well as permitting the Casimir effect.

I'd also like to ask if you guys have any links to sites describing crystal growth at the molecular level.

[BRAHMA]

John Hutchinson now has his own youtube account and has been uploading a bunch of videos.  his latest few additions are about the crystal power cell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwI_QKX6kV0

[Pirate88179]

Thanks for the heads up.  I am not sure if he really told us any thing more but it was good to see it.

Bill

[triffid]

Aluminum foil completely wrapped around a glass jar makes a good cheap faraday cage.Just put your cell phone (turned on ),then call yourself.No signal gets in to ring your cellphone.So you just get your voicemail.Triffid