I went to a lecture on using carbon nanomaterials for various energy applications. It was an interesting overview of the different uses and types of these materials, but I wanted to hear more about the speaker's specific research and findings because a lot of what he said was background-type information.
I spent a lot of the afternoon remaking a lot of solutions that the lab had run low on, and in the process, I had an interesting experience with HCl. After washing many, many beakers, I wanted to measure some of my samples from last time to see how they were doing after they were released, but the ellipsometer wasn't working. According to one of the graduate students there, the laser was tired and needed to rest, which apparently happens frequently and for unpredictable periods of time.
Instead of working with my samples for the rest of the day, I read a wide variety of papers. The lab also spontaneously sparked into a debate about the differences between disorders, diseases, and syndromes, which even Google was not helpful in resolving. After half an hour of this, I returned to studying the papers.
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