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🎊Chemists discover clean and green way to recycle Teflon

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-chemists-green-recycle-teflon.html

#chemistry #mechanochemistry #ballmill #plastics #ptfe #waste #recycling #manufacturing

🦠 From pond to polymer: Chemists create fully recyclable plastics using whole-cell algae

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-pond-polymer-chemists-fully-recyclable.html

... I'm always amazed at what people do with ball mills

#plastics #materials #manufacturing #algae #microbes #biomanufacturing #biotech #ballmill

A video of me adding the phosphors. Yes, it has only been 20 minutes on the mill, but I had to pull it off for a quick density test.

I added 60 more grams to the ChiChis jar as it was looking thin. I may have exceeded the proper rating, but I can always add more solvent in. It sure does look bright at the end there!

Its neat seeing the clump roll in. I sure am glad I built that ball mill! Its amazing seeing how well the nitro lacquer is working as a phosphor medium. It coats the glass SO well!

I borrowed a fitting from a shop Vac that I am gonna use to print an adapter to make a crude tube sucker for coating. Gonna make a port for sucking up phosphors and another for blowing off the remaining solvents with clean dry air from the blower.

Friday is test day.... or Tomorrow if I cannot handle myself.

#artist #brooklyn #phosphor #light #pigment #glow #studio #ballmill #nitro #coating #customcolor #color

At work today I found that the VHB tape had finally failed. Booo. No matter- the cotton floaty bits have now completely dissolved in the solvents. I got the mill spinning again by adding a clamp to it, and a shim to make the jars drift to the other side away from the motor.

My Ebay chemical buying habit is supporting some Ukrainians- my third chemical arrived today- Diethyl Phthalate- probably the most toxic of the bunch. I added a bit of it to the Chi Chis bottle which I divided in two.

I weighted out 30 grams of warm white 3700k phosphor and added it to the ChiChis, and 60 grams adding to a Wegmans Bruschetta Jar. After mixing for a little, I upped the ChiChis jar to 90 grams.

Apparently the ratio is 1.1 kilos for 8 liters... I am learning. They say to leave it spinning for two days before using it. Friday will be test day- assuming I can wait that long :)

So excited!

#studio #brooklyn #artist #customcolor #ballmill #quickfix #nyc #nitrocellulose #fluorescent #powder #color