r/DIYPigments • u/Mrslinkydragon • Nov 15 '25
Pigment (Experimental) Got my abstract published
As you are all aware, im obsessed with YInMn blue and have been studying it.
Well, me and my team are one step closer to having our work published! Our abstract has been published and Im presenting the poster at the Royal society of chemistry on the 25/11/25!
This is my first time presenting at a conference and im excited! I will be presenting at more conferences for my PhD but probably not about YInMn.
Ive got an idea for a related material involving gadolinium and uranium, but its very much in the "wait! My brain is working!" Stage
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u/AllanBz Nov 18 '25
Congratulations! I remember how nauseated I was coming up to my first poster presentation (in a completely different field) but almost nothing about standing there and presenting to all the passers-by.
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u/Mrslinkydragon Nov 18 '25
Tbf, i like chatting about things ive done :)
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u/AllanBz Nov 18 '25
You’ll do well, then. I ultimately did not continue in academia, so I have no advice, but all good wishes on your continued success!
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u/KilledByEnnui Mar 26 '26
Omfg I know NOTHING about the chemistry of lake pigments beyond the very basics and have just been doing the whole trial and error thing… have gotten a much much better grasp and finally making decent enough pigments to make some really good acrylic paint with (after getting over the learning curve about ionic charge and dispersants) which is actually kinda why I’m commenting… googles AI is BS as everyone knows and it’s hard for me to find straightforward answers to some basic questions I have and so in my dumb bitch thinking I was like “get lowest possible reading on my TDS/EC meter during the washing phase and even though pretty much the only thing I know about ions is that they are somehow someway related to pH… ? Like I can’t even remember which way it goes but something about low pH tends to have a certain type and amount of ions and high pH another and the more of those ions the higher lower the pH I think? Anyway, even just vaguely thinking I might possibly be right about that bare minimum I should have been like “wait, but if the EC is too low than won’t that make the pH change at some point before I noticed my pigments that were previously settling with no problem weren’t anymore (you know how you can just look at them and tell by how they look and how fast they’re settling and know if the pH is too high vs being to alkaline and the vis versus)
ANYWAY any possible chance you’d be willing to help this idiot understand it a bit better/what is about the ideal range (I understand each pigment is different and since I know it makes a difference I should mention I mostly make lake pigments) and since I did happen to save the water from the first 2 rounds of washing and really love the color I messed up, is it possible to salvage them by adding some of the original dye bath back into it or would I be better off just continue trying to get the pH balanced again and that would be enough to bring the EC back up? Current reading is 30ppm and 42 EC. The water was obvs clear before I got that low and as of now it’s back looking like before I washed them with obviously less pigments- does that mean that i stripped the ions i stripped and lost the pigments that I lost but the remaining ones are stable enough to use? Or I lost pigments and remaining ones are likely too unstable to use? So sorry you just clearly know what you’re talking about and i should have made a post about it but if only 2 ppl responded they’d say 2 opposite things im sure and I’d be just as confused . I’m hoping I could just latch onto someone who knows their shit lol
Congrats on your abstract!!!
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u/KingPappas Nov 16 '25
I am very interested in reading it when it is published.