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Ferrofluids: The science behind the blob

Hello all. I haven’t blogged in quite a while, I’ve gotten really busy over the past few years working on some exciting projects around novel nanoparticles for medical imaging applications. However, something that I’ve worked on in the past, our ferrofluid demonstration, has been getting some attention recently. Our Global Research headquarters in Niskayuna plastered this image on the wall of our main gallery and also, my colleague, Brian Bales, shared this demonstration with a film crew who used some of the shots in the recent GE commercials.

We’ve been getting some questions about what this material actually is so I wanted to direct your attention to an entry and video that I posted in April 2006 explaining this.

October 29th, 2009 | Global Research

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I know the work you are doing will proablly lead to some amazing tech. advances for my children and grandchild. Yet with all these advances ge can’t cure the noise pollution caused by their refrigerators. Can’t they spare one brillant mind for this problem. Proablly take him or her two or three days to come up with a way to get the woodpecker out of my frig.

cheryl albert | 10/30/09, 11:34 AM

obviously GE can’t get the woodpecker out of my frig. He or she is still stuck in there and appears to be getting even more irate.

cheryl albert | 2/13/10, 3:42 PM

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