Sunday, January 23, 2011

Seeing self-assembly

I discovered a real cool household experiment that can be used to demonstrate the complexity of interactions and structures that are present in a protein solution (milk). 



My wife and I did this experiment with some kids at church this morning and they thought it was pretty cool.


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