Plasma Metal Coating... In a Jam Jar

[@L00PdeL00P]

*Remember kids, always drink unhealthily large amounts of water, so that the mad scientists won’t be able to turn you into a metallic clone*

[@slendy9600]

r/HydroHomies

[@BrotherBlackBoltz]

Its called roboticeising

[@PrScandium]

ya don't wanna end up frozen in carbonite

[@L00PdeL00P]

HauntedCircuit It bisects my consciousness and gives me trauma

[@Tavz1111]

Fresh 😂😂😂

[@kolelokaram8541]

make a "full metal yellow jacket"

[@heraclitus6100]

Most underrated comment I've seen in a while.

[@uku4171]

amazing

[@Stellar001100]

I kinda clicked this expecting a terrifying unkillable metal hornet.

[@xBrabus76]

A termenet!

[@matrixarsmusicworkshop561]

lol xD

[@duanerackham9567]

Same I thought this guy was coating hornets with metal. Making an ultimate hornet!

[@literate-aside]

Me too, kinda dissapointed.

[@piesaurus6008]

I was expecting a robot hornet drone made to kill other hornets

[@tylergust8881]

"Even though the Plasma is hot, it's pretty straight forward to keep it cold" Ice. Metal coated Ice. You want a challenge? There you go.

[@tylergust8881]

@Alan Hardcastle That sounds like an excuse, if you took the challenge I'm sure you would find a way.

[@swoodc]

Genius

[@tylergust8881]

@Alan Hardcastle I never said he had to use the same method, plus I was being sarcastic in my original post.

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

Alan Hardcastle Then coat dry ice B I G B R A I N P L A Y S

[@anthonyturton8091]

@Alan Hardcastle that sounds like a fun project.

[@Psi105]

i wonder what bismuth would look like, given its very wide range of oxide colors

[@yappingdog2759]

I too am curious as to how it would behave, given its odd behavior to magnet fields.

[@Bananakid11]

I imagine that it would just look like the copper. The metaloxide is all you need for this effect. On just bismuth metal the oxide layer forms just in the right thickness for this effect to be visible. On Iron, the naturally formed oxides are to thick. When you heat Iron, the oxides form so fast, that they remain in the thickness range where the same effect keeps intact, so you can still see the colours. If you leave a heated metal thing for to long in the air, the colour slowly fades away.

[@PhilieBlunt666]

@@Bananakid11 stainless steel is notorious for the colored oxides too, I've see people make cape coils outta it to make em color, which seems really neat except soon as you use it the color vanished, seems like an awful lot of effort for just that moment of pretty

[@sunsaverfromnhh9184]

@@yappingdog2759 Yes. I build magnetic motors, and would like to experiment with bismuth's character using a device like this. What a shame to waste this tech on nothing but art.

[@yappingdog2759]

@@sunsaverfromnhh9184 it's not really a waste to use it like this. You can sell art and use the money for funds as long as production costs don't exceed profits. Plus, you can make accidental discoveries when you are just messing around. I didn't know you could coat organic matter in there until I saw this, which, is fascinating. I wonder if you can make business cards like this. The rainbow Sheen would be very eye catching.

[@lukas3709]

I believe a small skull, like some lizard or snake, would look awesome!

[@diegobrando3409]

Why take a skull when you can have the whole corpse

[@Wilson-kt8or]

Nah man i dont want a baby coated with metal

[@tims.1615]

@@Wilson-kt8or *why not*

[@Wilson-kt8or]

@@tims.1615 yes

[@psycronizer]

@@Wilson-kt8or does Tom Hanks still like to play with you ?

[@dutchtulip1258]

Researchers at Caltech and Northwestern University have found that electricity can be produced when salt water flows over the top of thin films of rust. It would be cool to see this in a future video.

[@jacobacon3219]

Imagine a sustainable method to employ in dams. Electricity is everywhere, energy is everything. Extremely simple ways exist to provide us with things we believe are rare or difficult, things that we ignore or take for granted or remain woefully ignorant of until an accident comes along and shows us our errors.

[@P-B-G_YT]

I've found that if you put a volt meter across falling water (try a slow stream from a tap) it produces a voltage drop. An old friend told me about it a year or two before he died. I haven't found any literature that mentions the effect, though I'm not certain exactly what I'd be looking for.

[@bozenafaltynkova2259]

@@kreynolds1123 how much of elecricyti it can make camper to turbine?

[@Ramog1000]

@@P-B-G_YT kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKeXfp2Xe8Sqpdk I think its nothing that unusual

[@MushVPeets]

@@kreynolds1123 30% efficient solid-state might be advantageous in certain niche uses to ~85% efficient with massive moving parts. Good to know we won't be pulling all of our electricity from rust-channel generators any time soon, though.

[@nibblrrr7124]

One thing I love about this channel is how dilligently you refer to your sources & inspirations, be they other creators' videos, articles, or books.

[@ryPish]

And from that day on, he was known as The Silver Surfer.

[@Poly_0000]

Wow that thumbnail looks really cinematic! Good job.

[@jcwdenton]

You do great work by showing magic of „high tech” done at home.

[@alphaadhito]

Very nice, makes everything looks interesting when coated with metal. Thumbs up for that Fire Nation logo on the glasses tho :)

[@seeigecannon]

Quick note on vacuum fittings: the larger your tube ID the faster/better vacuum you can pull. At low vacuums your fluid velocity is extremely fast, as such it is pretty heavily restricted by tube ID.

[@bluedeath996]

This brings back memories. I used to sputter coat all manner of things for use on my SEM. Then I got an environmental SEM and it didn't require it.

[@qwadratix]

You don't need to go to that sort of trouble. You can coat anything in metal by evaporation in vacuum. You make a tantalum spoon or 'boat' out of a strip of thin tantalum sheet and pass a current through to heat it, with a bit of silver or some other metal in the hollow. That melts then evaporates all over everything inside the chamber. Or you can make a little basket out of tungsten wire (By winding it around a wood-screw), pass a current through that with a bit of your metal laying in it. Either way works. I've used the technique hundreds of times to make samples conductive for examination in a Scanning Electron Microscope - or even to make little mirrors for optics by coating glass microscope slides.

[@DisturbedVette]

I love how you casually said you were gonna GROW NEURONS

[@ruuddriessen8547]

I used to work at a company that build these kind of coating machines. Verry interesting stuff.

[@edgeeffect]

I'd like the idea of someone going through everything Ben's done and saying "yeah... but here's how you can do it on a budget" ;)

[@gavincurtis]

I had a.cicuit board with leds near 480 arc during equipment failure. LEDs have a beautiful copper metal coating on them when off. When lit, they are their native colors. Clear coated them and removed from the defunct PCB before the copper could oxidise. Now I have exotic artsy one of a kind LEDs for a future project..hehe.

[@DBuilder1977]

It took me 1 week to build my first sputtering machine and then it took me another year (!) to optimise the sputtering head so that I didn't get amorphous films. You will really start to see the quality when you try to sputter transparent films. When you sputter just metal you think the quality is ok. Try and see what happens on for example ZnO. The film will come out "white" and amorphous with your sputtering topology...

[@krisspkriss]

Tool and die maker myself. This video was fascinating. I cleaned aluminum thoroughly with sandpaper and then gave it a good polishing to remove the oxide layer. Even if this isn't quite good enough, it will strip off the oxides quicker and more cleanly than the methods you are using. Once you have polished it, then do what you have been for the incidental oxides that will immediately form. You will be surprised how cleanly it removes oxides. You can also hold off the final polish until you are ready to put it in the nitrogen environment.

[@t.josephnkansah-mahaney7961]

Love that book! I even got to meet Dr. Copeland serendipitously and got him to sign my book.

[@zac_the_viking6695]

this is the next step towards spray-on shoes

[@SeegerG]

This is the type of game-changing video series I have been looking for for a long time. And it's a total blast. I will be immediately ordering a copy of Building Scientific Apparatus.

[@PenitentEngine]

Your dedication make you a professional

[@elterga6224]

Had no idea how much this technique was used, great video!

[@franglish9265]

I recommend Dupont Riston, with a high resolution capacity. I'd have to research which ones would offer the best resolution, but their products are very good, and their QA testing is very good.

[@PhilieBlunt666]

You're sequential method reminds me alot of airbrushing designs with the frisket film, great video as always my friend, you've made crazy progress from the first version

[@mkeider1]

When I worked in a lab that did a lot of sputtering they used coins as sputtering targets for gold, silver, platinum ect. As bullion coins are of a known purity and cheaper that buying from a standard suplyer.

[@jonahnicholas7373]

Is it just me, or does this guy sound just like the guy who does the myths and legends podcast? P.S. love the channel, the clarity and depth with which you describe all kinds of relatively advanced topics is really refreshing.

[@halted_code]

what about something like lithium? i suspect the lithium would still be reactive on a thin film, could it be possible to use this method to make a capacitor with this method, like put down a layer of a metal, then use your fan turn table thing to apply a thin coat of acrylic, and then more metal on top of that?

[@halted_code]

@@4.0.4 well say you just kept layering, and then you fused every other layer together, it would be like a super high surface area capacitor in a very small footprint, you would want each layer to have the same thickness though, and you would have to probably sputter for an hour per layer so the internal resistance of each layer isnt too high and also to keep imperfections to a minimum, but this could be a way to make very high capacity capacitors in a small volume, or it could produce something with similar electrical properties as a battery, due to the high internal resistances it could slow down the discharge, and due to the high surface area of the capacitor it could have a good amount of energy stored in it.

[@shannondove96]

A thin layer of lithium, then a coating of wax, then a thin layer of iron chloride, then a thin layer of wax, keep building this up, then sit it on an anvil and hit it with a hammer, the iron chloride will be pushed into the lithium with a lot of force,....would it go bang? Sodium metal would work better.

[@World_Theory]

I remember seeing an experiment that someone did in a vacuum chamber, where they demonstrated the pressure exerted by light, on a piece of foil, attached to a tiny wire axel. (It think it was Cody'sLab that did this.) Anyway, my point is… Could you use some type of light to put pressure on the gasses in the vacuum chamber, to move them in a desired direction, to concentrate them a little, and make it easier to pump them all out? My hunch is, you need a wavelength of light (or electromagnetic radiation) that interacts strongly with the gasses in the chamber. A related idea, is to use powerful pulses of light to jiggle stray atoms of gas loose from surfaces.

[@ObeliskWithLimbs]

Finally, Metal Mario is now possible.

[@dwane4300]

Everybody gangsta till the metal hornet start flying

[@matglk2084]

Everybody gangsta until you see metallized hornets coming after you

[@realcygnus]

Neat-o Bud ! This channel(for general coolness & diversity) IS on a pretty short list of truly great DIY/engineering channels "out there" imo. Its Applied Science(a Freak'n Electron Microscope in your garage, come on !) & Tech Ingredients(based on quality & quantity & diversity) for the snapshot finish as it stands.

[@wnohr77]

if you can you should try coating a dragonfly wing !

[@-robo-]

A whole dragonfly in gold.

[@wnohr77]

@@-robo- might be too big, just the wing would be simpler

[@mirosawacharchuta6075]

I can't wait for the bio season to begin! Great video.

[@flomojo2u]

One more tip-- try using photoresist "paint" off eBay instead of dry film, and use denatured alcohol to dilute as it comes as a concentrate. Spray it on with a pump sprayer, similar to how you use spray paint. It's much easier to apply and you can coat non-flat objects which is impossible with dry film. You can use Sharpie marker, vinyl, transparencies, or whatever to mask off areas from being exposed. It develops the same way as dry film with sodium carbonate or dilute hydroxides, then strip with sodium hydroxide solution.

[@lunevermeil1400]

You can also use helium argon mix for Aluminum and hydrogen or helium with argon for the titanium to keep those pesky oxides away. The helium and hydrogen will also allow hotter plasma transfer than argon alone. (I am a second generation welder)

[@LaynieFingers]

For gold, you could use gold leaf...

[@grumpyursidae1337]

Your chambers would make for some interesting shades for lighting. Maybe you could sell them and make some of your costs on this project back. I'd be interested to see how the glass looks with light behind, and perhaps to purchase some from you.

[@trevorjaster4072]

This is one of the best chanles on KZbin

[@Bacony_Cakes]

Hornet before DC Sputtering Magnetron: 🐝 Hornet after DC Sputtering Magnetron: 🤘🎸🐝

[@CC-fn4ch]

This is really a beautiful 🤩 Great channel!👍

[@tallen4520]

It's a proximity fuse to create critical mass between/among radioactive materials(even though they're remote from one another).

[@BackInTheGarden]

@ The Thought Emporium, For newbies you need to differentiate between "Pressure & Vacuum. Tho they can be referred to equally, they're at opposite ends of the "Pressure" designation.

[@user-sj9gz7pr3l]

x4 weakness to fire-type moves.

[@AB-Prince]

if you made copper traces, could you solder on to it

[@Spirit532]

Yes, easily.

[@Manie230]

I mean that’s how circuitboards are made. So yeah if you use copper you could make circuitboards at home in shapes that you wouldn’t get anywhere else.

[@kennedy67951]

I like what you are doing mate. I'm looking at this for my grandchildren as a teaching aid. Something they could do and make all kinds of thing. Also, you should try spay on (Teflon) for the chamber coating. You can buy this in a spray can. It's used as repair coating for pots and pans. After cleaning, just spray on and heat chamber to 300 to 400 degrees and hold for a short time. This should give a none stick coating. You could possibly use it instead of (VINYL). You could also try (PVA). Thin the (PVA) down and spray a light coating to the inside of chamber. Let it dry. Then heat to drive off any moisture. The (PVA) should wash out easily where (TEFLON) want. I don't know if any of the suggestion stated here will work. Let me know. Take a look at Robert Murray Smith KZbin channel. He does a lot of things similar to what your doing.Thank you for showing all your skills. It is appreciated.

[@Pseud0nymTXT]

I would love to see this used for foam cosplay builds

[@pogostix6097]

... This would probably be the most roundabout way to make those rainbow chopsticks, hahaha

[@ericbourque6389]

For aluminum, you could try to remove the oxide coating with a thin layer of hydrochloric acid whilst under vacuum. If there is no oxigen, the oxide layer will not form. I hope this would not damage your vacuum pump.

[@ahsanmehmoodkalimullah9193]

If you noticed the fire nation 🔥 logo on the sun glasses you are a true legend😎😊

[@johnbroadley2064]

This was a brilliant video ( away over my head ) well done 👍

[@The_Mimewar]

Fantastic follow up to your first vid.

[@AtlasReburdened]

Oh cool, superconductor coating opens up some very interesting experimemtal architectures. Did you know you can make a magnetic superconductor by coating a long cylinder of magnetically permeable matter like silicon iron with a coat of perfect superconductor? It has to be a perfect superconductor though, or your field lines are going to leak out of pinholes in the side. As long as it's right though, the fields that go in one end supposedly come out the other end unaltered. I've always wondered if it could be used to encase one whole pole of a pemanent magnet with the other end far enough away for the exposed face to approximate a magnetic monopole. Now _that_ would be some experimentation.

[@mattiasfagerlund]

Maybe you could burnish the metal coated cardboard (using the back of a spoon) to get some shine on it?

[@zocker9492]

You could attempt to make a capacitor by sputtering with metall and ceramic.

[@aMasterSmoker]

Lysol disinfecting spray which is mostly ethanol will remove sharpie markers almost perfectly

[@jamesparker8529]

you should try sputter coating the gecko tape

[@bogboydigiorno9570]

I had a similar question about vanta black

[@02jackal]

Thinking along the lines of additive printing do you think this could be converted into an alternative 3d printing technique??? Imagine the resolutions it'd be capable of let alone the types of materials you could print with or combinations you could combine...

[@Leafbinder]

Some Fish scales would look cool, Wonder what it would do to a balloon ? Or an egg coated in trit might be awesome.

[@demonlyconlord]

Watching this made me a fan! Keep up the cool works. Oh and yes I subbed to.

[@flomojo2u]

You can clean your vacuum chamber with Windex or alcohol, it really comes off very easily.

[@PeterYi]

In the 1980s China gave plasma spray technology to Romania in exchange for a T-72 tank. Now it's available for anyone on the internet to watch.

[@Mate2Frio]

You should try a small antenna.

[@drako11x93]

just WOW

[@kesakhan]

you could wash the jars in aqua regia to clean off the metals from the jar to save you having to make new ones

[@jevs8188]

what about bismuth in this setting? letting it run for a while might form some cool effect or crystals, idk. great vid

[@annego]

Nice, your friends will get vases with an hole in the bottom!

[@spqr0a1]

The Canadian Mint makes 99.99% silver which is excellent for vapor deposition or most chemical applications. Their coins are on eBay all the time for pretty close to the spot price. Great deal, a troy ounce goes a loooong way for coatings.

[@gabrielgomescunha]

Amazing

[@MarkProffitt]

Check out Atmospheric RF plasma deposition. There are a ton of tricks to make it cheaper & more flexible with various materials. You can basically print designs.

[@jakemcmillian]

Maybe try MEK instead of acetone to dissolve the adhesive a little better?

[@theleva7]

I imagine after adding needle valves to this setup it'll be possible to use it in CVD processes.

[@cypressgold]

Sounds pretty metal.

[@maxc7081]

Why not do the TiO2 coatings? It has almoast the highest refractive index possible, great for thin film optical coatings!

[@RyanLynch1]

your videos always interest and amaze me 😝

[@jmh1189]

That's pretty... Metal

[@vega1287]

si i just found out the polarusation filter from an lcd screen is similar to a big defraction grating

[@denaharbison1295]

New band name METAL HORNET 🤘

[@scienceputsimply1273]

With the old pipe fitting reactor video is it possible to create a way to relieve the pressure so it doesn't explode

[@vanry9829]

Hey, why don't you try making some thin layer material? I'm thinking to hydrogen fuel cell electrodes in particular, could be interesting to make them at an affordable price...

[@Bananakid11]

Idea for plating with gold a.s.o. use a very thin metal sheet that you electroplated with gold via simple electroplating out of auric acid. The total amount of gold should be very little. Maybe even just laying the metal sheet in an Au(III) solution should work --> Galvanic series I don't know if this could work with straightforward aluminium foil. Would be pretty amazing I imagine that the removal of the Al2O3 is the biggest problem here. Etching such a thin Al layer without cmpletlely destroying it is hard, but cound cause good results? Just an idea great work =)

[@itsthorondil7608]

Could you make a half silvered mirror this way? Custom laser?

[@Bill-xx2yh]

How thick or rather "thin" can the coating be? Is this the only way a coating can be applied? Can "living organisms" survive ANY of this?

[@youyoo3408]

try to make a diode. if needed, maybe some silicon or germanium scraps can be obtained

[@alllove1754]

Please know this video really matters

[@g1ngersnaps149]

Is this how the metalic sort of plastic that u often find on childrens toys made? like at first it feels like metal but then u realise its actually plastic?

[@coleblack784]

Would be interesting if you could coat things in stone with that, like marble or something. Just don't coat hornets in marble. That's how you end up getting stalked by slenderman.

[@syntheticelementvids]

So cool

[@idontwantachannelimjustcom7745]

Last night I was going to suggest you sputter aluminium onto the belt clip of a phone. Them bam. Here's how without me asking.

[@SUPERMAR10312]

So what you're saying is you can titanium plate diamonds?

[@robbiejames1540]

Or diamond plate titanium

[@cerveraux]

is this the way they made the James Webb Telescope mirrors?

[@djmix5027]

Dude your awesome 😎

[@bengriffin4027]

In reference to what was specified as 24k gold:"...after enduring the inferno of the plasma for a couple test runs it was nicely annealed...". 24k gold, being pure gold (no alloys and it does not readily oxidize, so only Au atoms) cannot be worked into more ordered states and thus there is no need to remove this order. In other words, 24k gold does not need annealing. In fact it cannot be annealed as only gold atoms are there, thus only one arrangement and thus no work hardening.

[@thethoughtemporium]

Thats.... not how crystal structure works. 24k gold can absolutely work harden. Anything can. It's not a lot, but it's noticeable and if you anneal it it softens. This is well known. Takes 4 seconds of googling to find dozens of sources talking about annealing and work hardening 24k gold. You can't QUENCH harden 24k gold, but everything work hardens.

[@bengriffin4027]

@@thethoughtemporium Look, the idea that you get lots of hits from a particular search somehow equates to the idea being true is not a good way to research. If you search flat Earth, you get lots of people claiming that too. Do you believe the Earth is flat? The point being: vet your sources. Pure gold does not work harden appreciably. Gold can be rolled so thin that some light gets through. It can be rolled so thin that it can be eaten safely and is used as decoration on things like cakes. The fact that pure gold does not work harden makes this possible. If your metal work hardens it is not pure. Alloying results in different sizes of the atoms that make up the lattice. These (and in other metals oxides as well) distort the matrix. Dislocations which ease sliding of the planes get caught on these distortions in alloyed metals. This is the reason that most metals start out more ductile and get harder as you cause more plastic deformations; the dislocations are getting cause on the defects in the crystal lattice. Not pure gold though. You can roll it and roll it and roll it without annealing until it is so thin you can see through it; so thin you can safely eat it.

[@seditt5146]

I still want to have the Neurons hooked to a Spiking Neural network. Can we please make this happen?

[@ARCSTREAMS]

now thats what i call an exo skeleton ,full metal jacket

[@sapieattersisingere3288]

I would love one of the hornets