#cyclohexane

Polls

some scribbles from the past month

i will now randomly select two of the ocs im centrifuging in my brain

🍾How does your OC celebrate special occasions? With whom?

Cyclo isn't a huge party person- he does celebrate things, but he's more of a special treat kind of person than a party one. Usually he'll just make a special dinner or dessert, or go out and do something that he normally doesn't do. With his best friends and family of course. Both in Oblivion and back in his original universe, he included his crew in everything.

🥯What does/has your OC have/had an unhealthy obsession over? What caused this obsession? How do they deal with it? Do they seek help?

Osmium has a borderline comical obsession with sweets. He will stop at NOTHING to get sugar into his body- down to drinking bottles of honey just for something sweet. There's no particular cause i think, if anything it's just The Neurodivergence looking for cheap dopamine atop not really having access to any sugar for a great many years.

Vapor drives a liquid-solid transition in a molecular system

The transition between a solid and a liquid phase, a key process in daily life and materials science, is generally driven by a change in temperature or pressure. However, a reversible change of state caused by other stimuli is also possible: for example, light has been used to induce solid-liquid transitions.

Tomoki Ogoshi from Kanazawa University in Japan and colleagues studied pillar[n]arene molecules -- pillar-shaped molecules that were first reported by their research group -- to which functional groups can be added to modify their physical properties. Introducing 12 n-hexyl (C6H13) chains into the molecules transform the system into a room-temperature structural liquid, that is, a system with a certain degree of order at the nanoscale but without a periodic structure. The liquid solidifies when exposed to a guest vapor, whose molecules replace the n-hexyl substituents in the cavities of the pillar-shaped molecules. At the same time, the substituents located outside the cavities crystallize. The result is that, on a timescale of a few seconds, the system solidifies and the transparent liquid changes to a turbid solid.

As the competitive guest vapor the authors used cyclohexane, because it fits into the cavities of the pillar-shaped molecules and is easy to remove by heating the sample under reduced pressure, a process that results in the molecular system going back to the liquid state. The adsorption and desorption processes are characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance measurements, whereas the structure of the system is studied by X-ray diffraction.

My brother got me five entire worms on a string for my birthday which was already wonderful, I took them on the Pride march having arranged them into the colours of the pride flag.