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5-plus-1: 壁画に蛇口が付いてるの見えるかな。 山の斜面にあるあまり治安の良くなさそうな町の一角にあった壁画。 職人が多く住むこのエリアの何か力強さが感じられる。

5-plus-1:

壁画に蛇口が付いてるの見えるかな。
山の斜面にあるあまり治安の良くなさそうな町の一角にあった壁画。
職人が多く住むこのエリアの何か力強さが感じられる。

brookhavenlab: Oh, infrared heating furnace. You glow so good. A lot of the materials we make here at Brookhaven are too small and too precise for traditional tools — good luck trying to hammer atoms into place or screw nanoscale films together. So sometimes we don’t build materials, we grow them.  Case in point: that glowing chamber above is used to grow superconducting crystals. The infrared image furnace focuses infrared light onto a rod, melting it at temperatures of about 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Under just the right conditions, that liquefied material recrystallizes as a single uniform structure. One of our physicists, Genda Gu, actually pioneered techniques that grow some of the largest single-crystal high-temperature superconductors in the world. The clincher is that these sensitive crystals aren’t in a hurry to take shape. The materials grown by those gold-lined instruments typically take a month to form.

brookhavenlab:

Oh, infrared heating furnace. You glow so good.

A lot of the materials we make here at Brookhaven are too small and too precise for traditional tools — good luck trying to hammer atoms into place or screw nanoscale films together. So sometimes we don’t build materials, we grow them. 

Case in point: that glowing chamber above is used to grow superconducting crystals. The infrared image furnace focuses infrared light onto a rod, melting it at temperatures of about 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Under just the right conditions, that liquefied material recrystallizes as a single uniform structure. One of our physicists, Genda Gu, actually pioneered techniques that grow some of the largest single-crystal high-temperature superconductors in the world.

The clincher is that these sensitive crystals aren’t in a hurry to take shape. The materials grown by those gold-lined instruments typically take a month to form.