Electron microscope animation: Carbon nanotubes pulled into thread

[@TechIngredients]

I have NEVER such a high quality seen an electron microscopic animation before and this is with vintage equipment. You really impress me!

[@kiwibob223]

Vintage equipment 😞we used exactly this model for real 20 years ago for my partner's postgraduate degree.

[@martinator9480]

@@kiwibob223 20 years ago...

[@-Graham]

@@martinator9480 2000 using something that at least looks like it was made in the 70's. I kinda see his point

[@PurpleHaze2k9]

Ayyyyy Tech Ingredients. Nice to see you here!

[@catsbutthole]

i was thinking the same thing, all hail king of the nerds. cant wait to see more

[@piotrfila3684]

I love the fact that you made carbon nanotubes and the thing you want to talk about the most is an animation

[@garret1930]

Threads of carbon nanotubes

[@piotrfila3684]

@@garret1930 I get that he didn't make terribly long nanotubes but still

[@garret1930]

@@piotrfila3684 absolutely, this is amazing and beautiful stuff. It's really cool.

[@desromic]

He talked about making nanotubes in a previous video.

[@jaggztech]

Because maybe someone's supposed to donate a more modern electron microscope to him (and he can donate his old one to me -- I'd use it to identify patients' pneumonia-causing bacteria without needing the slow lab-cultures). :D :/

[@markbanash921]

I have been in the carbon nanotube field for almost 20 years. Anyone who says they understand this technology is lying. The true breakthroughs will come from tinkerers and experimentalists playing around like this. Keep going.

[@Eigenbros]

The depth of knowledge Ben has is always pretty crazy. Animation turned out really nicely. 👌👌

[@Richard.Andersson]

Amazing video Ben. It's nice to see my old SEM still being used, I definitely gave it to the right person!

[@Richard.Andersson]

Here is an old video I made before I sent it from Sweden to Ben in California: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6iYgGWOntCMq9U Edit: Just to clarify, Ben kindly payed for the shipping, which was not cheap considering it weighs close to 300 kg (600 lb).

[@1943vermork]

👍

[@cantsolvesudokus]

Nice! Do you have a new one now?

[@Richard.Andersson]

@@cantsolvesudokus Unfortunately not, the one Ben has now was taking up too much space in my apartment hence I had to get rid of it. At approximately the same time period Ben was building his DIY SEM so I asked him if he was interested.

[@AppliedScience]

Much appreciated, Richard! I've had a great time using it.

[@CuriousMarc]

What an awesome and amazing thing to do with an electron microscope. Too bad I can't give it more than one like.

[@icandreamstream]

This is super, super interesting. Looking forward to more content on this!

[@br6768]

I litterally said "Whoa" like Neo when he started pulling on the threads

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

This could also advance the science of how to make strong carbon nanotube wires and cables. A space elevator just got one step closer.

[@jmir33]

Love the idea of more SEM animations! SEM microscope images are cool, but adding panning, rotating and zooming to the images really makes them come alive!

[@ChrisB257]

I admire your great patience doing this Ben... extraordinarily painstaking. Thanks for sharing a fantastic and fascinating result.

[@IanGrams]

Wow, that's honestly the most stunning electron microscope animation I've ever seen 🤯 Your technique of getting a continuous zoom with discrete input worked really well. Just as I was thinking "he ought to put some steppers on those knobs" you mentioned your plan to do just that 😄 Thanks for all your work feeding my curiosity!

[@MLGJuggernautgaming]

Really glad to see the SEM back in action! It’s probably my favorite piece of equipment

[@Stefan_Kawalec]

"I hope you find that interesting" - a funny way of expressing understatements. Excellent and jaw dropping material. As always.

[@GoldSrc_]

Your channel is just so good with the quality of content you post, and extremely interesting. So glad I found your channel years ago, keep up the good work.

[@ilikeyourname4807]

I agree but aren't you supposed to be silent?

[@lemonberries]

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[@TanyaSapienVintage]

He typed that though. vow of silence not broken.

[@TanyaSapienVintage]

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[@whatdamath]

What is this? A carpet for ants? Oh... I guess it is I miss working with electron microscopes. Last time I used a similar device I got to move iron metals around. It was exciting for about 2 minutes and after that I started questioning my life choices.

[@sypeiterra7613]

I would love to move little metal bits around

[@cobalius]

Do i see a wonderful person uwu? Yes, i guess

[@encryptedmaze]

Why question your life choices? Getting hands on and manipulating the very fabric of our reality itself sounds pretty epic to me.

[@phil1pd]

You're still a wonderful person.

[@parkerbossier]

You define this entire category on KZbin. Thanks so much for continuing to do what you do.

[@luisca92]

This is awesome! I'm an animator and this tool would open up a world for me in terms of my animations. As soon as I saw it I thought stepper motors. I truly look forward to seeing this project. Thank you. You are doing something beautiful

[@ColonelAngus101]

Love the video, love the way you use the SEM, reminds me of when we built the SEM in the garage by cutting the screen of the old oscilloscope (you get x-y control for free) and mounting it into the vacuum chamber to inspect flat panel display traces (if you energize them you can see them - sem can pick up 5V difference in float voltage). We got very wide field of view (>10cm) at high enough resolution. Post more!

[@Zardwark]

Ben continues to deliver top quality content to the internet and long may it go on! You know, I've always thought he missed a career in teaching, then I think, "Naah, we would have this channel?", and alas, selfishness wins every time :-) So little really top notch content out there, this stands out as a pearl.

[@Quickened1]

The fact that you get all that you do, out of such an antiquated machine as that, is astounding! Can't imagine what you could achieve with a modern rendition... Awesome man...

[@jaydekaytv]

Wow! This is spectacular! Outstanding work! ⭐️🥇🏆 Thanks for sharing, love tuning in to see your projects! 👍

[@robert-wr9xt]

Did I ever tell you how awesomely scientific education you share and have shared? Completely impressed. I consider this channel as pure ‘information’. I have gained enough resolution to stop. Mad respect.

[@roderickwhitehead]

Man, 2 nights back I was binge rewatching old Applied Science vids... nice timing. Always a treat. Thanks, Ben!

[@smh988]

600 stitched single frames, huh. "Painstakingly" must be an understatement. You document your (already) fascinating projects so well, and it's so interesting to see how you use mostly common tools to achieve remarkable things. Thanks for continuing with these posting.

[@TheNumbers400]

Frigging awesome. Glad to see you are back making videos.

[@reggiep75]

I've always loved SEM pics but this video and animation is groundbreaking and epic.

[@brentpolk2431]

Ok...I watch a lot of scientific youtube videos and this is science PORN! Amazing job. We as a learned community of enthusiast don't get to see things like this often. BRAVO!

[@MrPhysicianist]

The quality of your videos and projects is exceptional! Thank you for sharing them with us!

[@supergiantbubbles]

That animation is so cool. Thanks for creating and sharing it with us all.

[@dizzolve]

I never bother to judge coming here by the title of the video........... I just always click right on over no matter what. Pretty awesome potential in that new project .........I hope you do it.

[@aa55claa55cl]

this channel is one of the most technical channel on earth

[@aledirksen01]

Epic video. You make extremely marvelous videos here on KZbin and have so many equipments and knowledge and the know how to apply this and carry it out. Your work does not go unnoticed. We highly appreciate all this work and thank you for always being an excellent source of entertaining and educational Applied Sciene!

[@thetruthexperiment]

I wish I could fund you to make hours of this kind of stuff. Nobody else is doing it and it's incredible.

[@bertholtappels1081]

Each time I think that you cannot top your last video in terms of quality, engagement, inspirational effect, educational value and general technical/scientific impact, you do. You continuously seed your audience with skills, ideas, and insights that they’ll carry with them into their scientific and processional careers, or journeys of curious discovery. Thank you.

[@mannys9130]

That zoom decision was great. It worked very well! This video was awesome. 😎

[@TyCetto]

Beautiful work, thanks for taking the time to show me this amazing physical transition!

[@SwapPartLLC]

I love videos like this. I believe you could make an entire channel out of nanoscale animations.

[@elishmuel1976]

after many many hours of watching your videos, I can only conclude that you, sir, are a genius.

[@snoodthe5249]

thumbs up within the first 5 seconds of his video because of how much work and how awesome this guy is to share his interesting life....i can only hope to have half of the cool stuff he has made videos on.

[@smartereveryday]

Absolutely love it.

[@jasonnoteboom4489]

While I don’t fully understand how you do what you do (though I learn much through your explanations), I certainly appreciate your passion for it. Thank you for sharing.

[@Streetsy]

I find these electron microscope videos really interesting. Thankyou.

[@HuehuehueWolooo]

Hey! I met the guy who gave you this SEM today and he pointed me to this video. Great job on showcasing vintage tools! Quite a nice image for the size of the tool also!

[@alanguile8945]

Get this man a new electron microscope!!!!! Incredible animation fantastic.

[@_B_K_]

I am very excited about your plan to automate it. Definitely looking forward to those videos!

[@TheNewton]

Thanks so much for these videos , it's amazing how important these videos are. There is a complete lack of good information on the graphene manufacturing process and carbon fiber. Almost everything is glossed over, hard to find or inscrutable. Like just looking into carbon fiber means having to sift through the mountains of "DIY carbon-fiber" thats about bloody vinyl stickers. But here you *literally* show discrete parts of it, thanks.

[@gibbyrockerhunter]

Ben You are great. I love the content and all of your videos so far. I even found the few presentations not on your channel that were totally worth watching. After screwing around with many different ccd spectroscopes I finally have a PMT on the way! So thank you for your guidance. Previously you helped me with scattering silver on to glass. You really are an awesome human for sharing your knowledge. Thank you. If you plan on taking your delorean to half moon for another show you should totally let us know. Id love to thank you in person.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Buy a spinning wheel, knit some body armour.

[@dimitar4y]

CARBON NANOTUBE ARMOR! .... How good would that even be?

[@MostlyPennyCat]

@@dimitar4y I have no idea, I just dream of a really terrible looking knitted jumper, probably beige, but it can stop tank rounds of something. All soldiers looking like middle aged northerners. With attack slippers, pipe grenade and highly trained death whippets.

[@AnonEMus-cp2mn]

Carbon nanotube-coated kevlar armor has been on the market for years. The coating greatly improves the kevlar's structural integrity and shelf life, even making it waterproof. Bullets that are stopped by the kevlar weave tend to embed themselves in the material, but the coated armor can protect it enough for bullets to bounce or barely stick to the vest itself.

[@AlexDainisPhD]

This is incredibly cool and incredibly impressive. I am constantly awed by your skill and knowledge, but now also by your patience in collecting those frames!

[@cherrybacon9790]

Only this channel entertains me on a date consisting of only 2's and 0's

[@tubefish666]

Great presentation. Amazing how even with old hardware an intelligent mind can produce 1st class results.

[@trollenz]

Awesome project, as always... Love the idea of a CNC SEM 😂 Can't wait to see your implementation and new animations, brilliant.

[@AttilaTheHun333333]

What a gem this channel is.

[@EnUsUserScreenname]

Aww hell yeah, more content!

[@-Graham]

Trust Ben to be the one who teaches and old SEM dog new tricks! Great stuff!

[@Jay0neDE]

Man, I want to be you in 10 years! You've built an electron microscope, a laser, x-ray machine, made crazy glass that changes color in UV light and tons of other bleeding edge science things. I can't think of anyone who is so versatile and has so much knowledge about technologies of the future. I tip my hat to you Sir.

[@eugeneputin1858]

This has got to be the most amazing thing I've seen by far

[@gavendb]

simply amazing. your channel has never ceased to amaze me. thanks for sharing your brain.

[@unvergebeneid]

Even at the highest magnification, the carbon nanotubes aligning like that still looks like magic though :D

[@electronicsNmore]

I'd love to have an electron microscope. Great video as usual!

[@Arrogan28]

I have to say, any one of your videos would have me thinking the person behind it was very well versed in the subjects being discussed. But to see how many subjects you cover, and at the depth/degree you dive into them, it is really very humbling I must say. Most science video channels I don't feel intimidated at all, but this channel is a different story. You have to be one of the very brightest people on youtube. Again, namely because i don't think i have seen another channel that goes into the same depth on such a breadth of subjects. I don't know of another channel that comes close. Glad to see your subscriptions are growing, well deserved... thanks again for producing these, super interesting stuff...

[@JWH3]

Thank you for all your work, your dedication and attention to detail is fantastic, every video is a real treat to get to watch.

[@MrJuuustin28532]

The most underated channel ever. You are Edison and his resources reincarnated into modern times.

[@firstlast6796]

dude is just nonchalantly doing the most cutting edge stuff.

[@fp4303]

I like how he makes far better science working on his shed than any experimental physics department I ever went.

[@mfbfreak]

What a super cool retro electron microscope! I love that old school green CRT so much!

[@charlesross9260]

I ran the same model Joel 35 years ago when it was an advanced instrument.

[@keenanmatthews1208]

Can we all just agree, this guy is absolutely awesome.

[@nrstunt]

just a casual nanotube production. This is cool.

[@madmikewood]

You are probably the single most incredible channel on youtube

[@ronniepirtlejr2606]

Wow this is an amazing animation! Thank you so much for your hard work!

[@aaronsmicrobes8992]

Not sure I've ever seen a SEM animation. This is super interesting. I would subscribe to a whole channel of just interesting SEM animations.

[@toolhog10]

Yeah. There are the slow mo guys for super slow footage... He can make the zoom in guy channel with the electron scope and get those 15 mill subs too.

[@andymouse]

Quite simply, wow!...can't wait to see this project mature.

[@romanbass3350]

The WHO has a publicly available document that details how small organizations can manufacture their own hand sanitizer solution. They list two formulations. This would be a cool, easy, and topical subject for a video. Thanks for always making great content!

[@nutzeeer]

very cool that this old a hardware can still be used today. really rare nowadays

[@allenschmitz9644]

Oh my..all that vintage eqpt....Iv been called a knob turner before, but you take the cake..the work that went into that video...yowza!

[@toryallan7967]

It's like clay animation but for Science! Nicely done.

[@br6768]

Applied Science's SEM videos are my favorite

[@noahtaylor7632]

This reminds me of an old demo my dad talks about from the days when he worked as a media technician for the lecturers at Harvard. The professor would pull a continuous polymer thread from the meniscus between two liquids in a beaker, and spin it on a spool until there was no liquid left. I always imagine that to look just like this animation did!

[@Sonny_McMacsson]

His professor was a spider.

[@wv_]

I’m at work. Am lead systems engineer for big department at nice company. I have a good Friday where I fix problems others couldn’t figure out. I go home feeling pretty good about myself, maybe I’m not that dumb. Then I watch any video by this guy ;)

[@scottcortus9590]

The animation turned out looking beautiful! All of your SEM stuff is awesome! It’s cool that you are using a retro SEM with modern acquisition tech, kind of like putting a modern supercharged motor in a classic car!

[@kthfox]

this is amazing, i super look forward to the results of your hard work

[@jaybingham3711]

Yes, found it interesting. Thank you for your effort pulling ;] this off. Seriously, kudos. I also find it interesting that this video disappointed 38 people to such an extent that it motivated them to register a dislike. If they could all be interviewed, that too would make for an interesting video.

[@aSinisterKiid]

Incredible amount of effort put in for the animation. Great work Ben. I love your work. It's always fascinating.

[@graithtools8215]

Brilliant. That is so reminiscent of how spider silk is formed.. similar enough to wonder if it can be turned into a mass production process.

[@turpialito]

You, sir, have a habit of outdoing yourself periodically. Congrats.

[@afbennett3038]

This man literally owns an electron microscope and can make carbon nanotubes, I think he’s reached his maximum power level at this point

[@jczeigler]

AF Bennett not even close.

[@afbennett3038]

Carl Zeigler to be fair it wouldn’t surprise me if one day he starts a video off with “so this is a nuclear reactor that I picked up off craigslist”

[@ikitclaw7146]

An extremely underrated channel, the work you put into this is amazing, please keep it up! getting closer to that 1mil mark now!

[@mduvigneaud]

Awesome, Ben! I really look forward to this as you work on it! :D

[@edgeeffect]

A stepper motor on the stage control triggered by "frame complete" would be so cool......... oh you just said that as I was typing. The duration of the animations that you can get manually kind of reminds me of doing computer animation back in the 386/MS DOS days.

[@Coltography]

Amazing stop motion video, I'm beyond excited to see where you take this in the future!!

[@dfan8432]

This vintage electron microscope is so cool.

[@andynz7]

Your videos just blow almost everything else on youtube clean out of the water!!

[@leoberges1705]

This is so wonderful, thanks a lot for making such an animation !

[@yutakazaiki4655]

Just great! Please continue such a valuable, precious, works!

[@pokojnitozo2360]

I hope that you will read this comment. I just want to thank you for great content and inspiration :)

[@BuckJolicoeur]

Super fascinating. I can make out individual "stems" of nanotubes "peeling" down the depth of the layer as you pull it.

[@CTP1111]

wow you never cease to amaze me

[@robertforrester578]

Just plain old good work Brother. Thanks from Philadelphia

[@grexursorum6006]

I like you SEM-Videos the most. So interesting! thx

[@programorprogrammed]

Those are beautiful animations.

[@Muonium1]

This channel and its unusually informed and astute comment section is doubtless the highest concentration of IQ on all of youtube.