February+7-8th

February 7th:

There was a seminar by Daniel Nocera, a MIT professor of chemistry, concerning energy, its use today, and the future of both the creation and application of energy.

Upon return to the Lab, at about 5:30, Becky had me make a new graphite sample on a piece Scotch tape. -I scanned this piece under the portable AFM -the plan was to bend the tape in a wave-like pattern to see if that changed the scan at all -However, the scope was not approaching for some time, and I was only able to record two images of the pre-bend graphite before I had to end for the day.



February 8th: -I scanned the same piece of graphite from yesterday on the portable AFM -I did bend the Scotch tape backing after the image 2-8-11AF