• Question: what has been your favorite experiment from the past year?

    Asked by E_kelleher to Francesca, Laura, Matthew, Andrew, Rebecca on 17 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Matthew Camilleri

      Matthew Camilleri answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      Wow, I have done a number of interesting experiments in the past 12 months. I guess the most interesting one has to be trying to find an innovative way how to heat up reactions using light. It was an experiment that never worked, but I had a blast trying it out.

      The theory was simple, if we can hit the resonance of the gold nanoparticles we could resonate them copying the same effects as heat, giving them energy and making reactions take place at much lower temperatures.

    • Photo: Laura Schofield

      Laura Schofield answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      I think the one I’m doing at the moment is probably the most interesting for me because it could be the one to prove my process works and that it works well!!! That would be a really positive note to finish my PhD on!

    • Photo: Andrew McKinley

      Andrew McKinley answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      The LEGO spectrometer is pretty cool – it encapsulates so much that I like: LEGO, spectroscopy, colours, tinkering with kit, and developing a teaching experiment.

      And there’s no reason it can’t be done in high school!

    • Photo: Francesca Palombo

      Francesca Palombo answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      My favourite experiment was the one that I performed coming back from a visit to some colleagues abroad. We managed to perfectly site-match two different microscopy experiments. Now I need to start drafting a good publication out of it!

    • Photo: Rebecca Ingle

      Rebecca Ingle answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      Definitely my work in Japan – not only was it a completely unique experiment that no one else had done, it was incredibly elegant and on my favourite molecule too.

      What made this so special was we were using ultrafast 133 nm pulses – which are incredibly difficult to generate to basically follow the changes in the energy of a molecule in real time.

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