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Fluorescence is action at the pub! While tonic water looks transparent in daylight it starts to glow under black light! (Compared to regular water at the beginning of the video.)

The #Diamonds' colour changes depending on which elements are inside the crystal. As an over-used quote in diamond theses goes: "Crystals are like people, it is the defects in them which tend to make them interesting!" (Colin Humphreys).

And another paper is out! Do you ever wonder how to get your #diamond more fluorescent? Read more about our #annealinginsitu method in the journal #Carbon: authors.elsevier.com/c/1Y9My1zUAE5MN CNBP RMIT Research

The snow falls on my last day in Germany. Goodbye to you too Freiburg!

This seems like a nice thesis-writing spot! Now I will have to do most of the work before summer ends thou D:

I swear my expression has nothing to do with the content of my #PhD completion seminar! It's cool science, you should ask me about it next time.

Doing a PhD is not an easy experience, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. But the group you are part of makes a huge difference. No post or message will be able to express how lucky I feel to have been part CNBP. This is a good start:

Congratulations Ivan Maksymov and Andrey Pototsky, for being awarded the 2020 Ig Nobel Physics Prize! Improbable Research Swinburne University of Technology CNBP

It's official .... the Gibson & Greentree Lab website is now live .... click on gibsongreentree.com if you'd like to find out more about our #research, #people and #facilities at RMIT Research CNBP #GGLab

Got boosted! Unfortunately not yet heat resistant thou...

If you thought using a #diamond - with NV centres - as a laser medium was amazing, wait to see the laser output changing when a magnet gets close! Time to measure very tiny magnetic signals with a diamond laser. iaf.fraunhofer.de/en/media-libra…

Great start of the #aipcongress2022 with the amazing plenary talk by Nobel laureate Donna Strickland on high-intensity laser physics!

Partial #SolarEclipse2023 as seen from #Melbourne. First image taken with all lowest settings on a camera + tinfoil pinhole in front of the lens. The second image is filtered through sunglasses as well 😎