Laser surface processing, energy sources and AI
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Hello all,
Hope you're all doing well. I'm sitting down and reflecting on the past few weeks and wondering where the time has gone. Attending conferences is wonderful but it always feels like you're trying to catch up when you get back. I finally don't feel behind with my to-do list and I've started for the upcoming months. It's going to be a busy year for sure but looking forward to the new challenges of this year.
Research highlights: Open Access
In addition to mechanical methods, laser processing is an effective surface roughening method. By varying laser wavelength, power, scanning speed and line distance the ablation depth, oxidation and topography can be affected. "Influence of wavelength and accumulated fluence at picosecond laser-induced surface roughening of copper on secondary electron yield" by Bez et al. is an excellent recent open access paper pertaining to the treatment of the surface of vacuum components for the Large Hadron Collider.
Productivity Resources: Writing Research Articles
I recently discovered an excellent guide by Tylor Burrows: Writing research Articles for Publication. Burrows breaks down the complex research article writing process into manageable chunks and provides great language examples to improve writing. It's great for students who are wading into authorship; I particularly like this diagram of the main sections in a research article.
Interesting Infographics
Recently, energy and electrical supply have become increasingly important due to the pressure to move to renewable energy resources and to have a reliable energy supply away from shifting political alliances. Europe is making good progress at moving away from fossil fuels but many countries still depend on them. Read more about this infographic from the Visual Capitalist here.
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Notable and quotable
“Forget artificial intelligence – in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.” —Tom Chatfield
What we’re reading
Retraction Watch provides an interesting window into a broad spectrum of scientific publications. The Weekend Reads is generally I get the chance to sit down and review the featured news items from the past week. Last week, a rejection letter emerged from the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE) stating “while the subject is within the scope of the journal, there are only four citations to past papers published in IJHE out of 150 references cited.”. Peer review is a rightfully tough process but this should not be a deciding factor for publication in a journal. Read more here.
An app a day
ChatGPT from OpenAI was launched at the end of November 2022 and has taken the world by storm. I was initially doubtful as I've seen chatbots take a turn before (Microsoft's Tay is a prime example) but it's a fun toy to play around with. Its text-generation capabilities are impressive but it's clearly not exhibiting true intelligence. Fascinatingly, several papers have listed the tool as an author but I find myself agreeing with this editorial from Science.
The lighter side of the internet
There are few people brave enough to put their bodies on the line for science but I think I've found the most bizarre example of this. Six doctors have written a paper on the ingestion of lego. You read that correctly, it's worth checking out and it's open access!
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