Have mini detectives, secret agents, or superheroes at home? Keep your creative kids entertained for hours with this fun DIY invisible ink recipe that uses ingredients straight from the kitchen! There’s nothing quite as fun as sharing secrets with your BFF using invisible ink. Crafty kids will especially love the magic of creating their own […]
Transform plain ceramic tiles into gorgeous yet practical color-saturated works of art with this alcohol ink coasters tutorial!
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Artist Ryan Blackwell created these fascinating drawings by simply applying ink to make the embossed designs on paper towels super graphic.
Ordinary copy paper can be made highly conductive by treating it with a simple water-based dispersion of carbon nanotubes. Bing Hu and other graduate students under Stanford researcher Yi Cui published a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) describing the use of such conductive paper to create high-performing prototype supercapacitors, batteries, and fuel cells. He also studied the wear resistance of the nanotube ink and found that it bonds very tightly to the paper; his data show that soaking, rinsing, and wringing-out in water does not significantly affect the properties of the treated paper. The supplementary information for his PNAS paper is freely available for download and describes his experimental methods in detail, including the recipe for his ink and the trick of reloading a commercial highlighter with it. [via Science Daily]
HOW TO – Tuesday! Make an “Invisible ink printer” – Take A New Twist On Lemon Juice. By Mike Golembewski Lemon juice has been used as invisible ink for centuries. Messages written in lemon juice are invisible to the naked eye. However, when brushed with a mix of iodine and water, they become quite visible. […]
