To grow pure metal crystals, he used copper wire and copper sulfate. He also used a special regulated power supply to create a low voltage to control the current used to form the crystal.

Growing Copper And Silver Crystals For Art August 17, 2015 by George Graves 35 Comments Usually when Hackaday covers electroplating techniques, it’s to talk about through-hole PCB plating.

It is possible to produce single-crystal copper, but it is difficult and prohibitively expensive. The U. of I. team speculates that it may be possible to improve copper foil manufacturing so that ...

Graphene grows better on certain copper crystals Date: October 28, 2011 Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Summary: New observations could improve industrial production of high ...

Scientists have discovered a strange new form of crystal that was forged in the first nuclear weapons test. Known as a "quasicrystal," the curious creation is made out of desert sand and copper ...

Speaker two What we want to do now is evaporate the water to leave us with copper sulfate crystals. So we’re going to pour this solution into an evaporating basin.

Speaker two What we want to do now is evaporate the water to leave us with copper sulfate crystals. So we’re going to pour this solution into an evaporating basin.