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Title: Maintaining temperature
Post by: darkSun on July 24, 2008, 12:27:32 PM

Hey,

I'm currently working in a lab, and we are trying to successfully anodize aluminum to make pores to grow nanowires in. However that is largely irrelevant, my question is,

How can we keep the temperature we are anodizing our aluminum in at 15 degrees Celsius? The papers I've read only anodize at that temperature.

Our setup consists of a tube mounted on a silver plate with the aluminum on top of the silver, and electrodes attached to the silver and a wire that goes in the solution in the tube.

Thanks

Title: Re: Maintaining temperature
Post by: Mitch on July 27, 2008, 02:16:47 PM

I would use a laboratory water chiller. It recycles the water to maintain a steady temperature. You might be  able to find something cheap if you use one of those PC modification sets, but I doubt you'll be able to monitor the temperature that well.

For the cheapest idea just flow cold water from the sink and have the overflow back into the sink drain.

Title: Re: Maintaining temperature
Post by: darkSun on July 28, 2008, 10:08:02 AM

Okay, I'll try it out. Thanks for the *delete me*