Our day was neatly cut in half today by a campus-wide power outage at RTI!
Pre-outage, we observed the making of yet another project that has applications in oil and gas: the making of small spherical particles that can deliver micro-sensors into an oil well. The particles themselves applied knowledge of polymers that we learned yesterday, and I was glad that I was able to follow along. The sensors themselves have huge potential in what they can measure in the future, and having knowledge of the contents of an oil well can greatly increase its efficiency.
Post-outage, we were told that we may have to leave early, but luckily, one of the few buildings that still had power was the building we were scheduled to be in. We were given a tour of the building, which houses all the labs and cool machines for analytical chemistry. We even got the opportunity to make standard solutions and run them in one of the machines!
