{"id":2551,"date":"2009-03-02T04:58:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T04:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2009\/03\/microtubes-on-youtube.html"},"modified":"2009-03-02T04:58:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T04:58:15","slug":"microtubes_on_youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2009\/03\/microtubes_on_youtube.html","title":{"rendered":"Microtubes on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nchem.113\">second research article<\/a> went live yesterday evening &#8211; this one about how you can grow microtubes from polyoxometalate crystals. You can control the direction in which the tubes grow and also how big their diameters are &#8211; and to show they are structurally sound, you can flow fluorescent dye through them.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Cronin and colleagues have put up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QjFrL3eapUI\">video on YouTube<\/a> showing how the tubes can be grown &#8211; have a look if you get the chance&#8230; there are also a collection of videos associated with the paper as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/sifinder\/10.1038\/nchem.113\">Supplementary Information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Cantrill (Chief Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\"><em>Nature Chemistry<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our second research article went live yesterday evening \u2013 this one about how you can grow microtubes from polyoxometalate crystals. You can control the direction in which the tubes grow and also how big their diameters are \u2013 and to show they are structurally sound, you can flow fluorescent dye through them.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2009\/03\/microtubes_on_youtube.html#wpn-more-2551\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2009\/03\/microtubes_on_youtube.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuart-cantrill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}