Thanks Robert, you're my favourite teacher. Would be really cool to see your work on the youtube recommended videos one day, with millions of views.

You do great work, and I am learning quite a bit! Thank you so much for posting these videos! I am going to study even harder, even though I don't have a lot to work with. I know about people scoffing at what one studies/does. I have asperger's, bipolar and ADHD. So it's hard to communicate effectively in a verbal fashion, though my written language is crystal clear. When I try to ask for help on these subjects, people tend to think I'm just making things up because my speech skills aren't what would be expected of someone who would immerse themselves in science. You are an absolute inspiration, and have given me confidence to continue forward. You help people like myself visualize applications through your explanations of these processes in chemistry. I owe part of my successes in understanding these processes to you. I thank you again.

I was just performing Benedicts Reagent and Fehlings solution earlier today. Turned out a fantastic Canary Yellow. Now that you have taught me how to create a gelatine electrolyte, I can now continue my work. 🎩🧪🔬🧠 Curse the sad sacks that have to nick others findings. Bless you friend. Έχω όνειρα

Fair play to ya Robert!! First time iv'e ever heard of this. As chelaters go, I've been exploring the world of sodium aluminate and experimenting with different copper salts and other metal salts. I find copper salts very compelling and most of my endeavours rest on the copper element. So glad to see this video...

Gelatin is an interesting base as it sticks tenaciously to glass and you can make it waterproof with dichromate in a photographic process so you could print circuits with it.

Learned something new today. How to make copper nano particles in a fluid. Thanks for sharing. Your teaching skills show off.

Nice I will give you props watching you graphene vids I came to the same idea about using safe cow collagen as a binder. Now watching your older stuff I find you had the idea already. I think your a great teacher. Thanks for your time

I fully agree with you about giving credit to those who are due.

Be a good example and wear safety glasses Thanks for the knowledge I was wondering if one could make a copper ceramic nano coating that protects steel from heat.

I have never seen red copper oxide. All my leftover copper salts I reduce the copper oxide and they're always black. I like to store all my copper salt is oxide because it's so quick and easy to generate any form of the salt from the oxide state. I must be passing the stage of red LOL. I've been away for quite a while and I'm so glad because there's a hundred videos to watch and it's very exciting lol. Edit, copper (I) red/brown

Robert, your videos are a treasure. For instance today I was wondering if I could disperse copper nanoparticles in gelatin to form conductive ink... I have a question. How do you open your microwave after microwaving formic acid? It turned my one room apartment into a gas chamber once before. The fumes burned in my lungs and my eyes and I had to evacuate hastily. I was trying to dissolve tin in formic acid, don't remember why. I think it did dissolve. So did the interior of my microwave. I believe I have plenty of copper oxide from ordinary non microwave reaction of CuSO4(aq) with Al. The powder I obtained reacts with formic acid 85%, forming azure blue. Awesome! However my CuSO4*nH2O(s) doesn't seem to be reacting with the acid. I now lack the courage to pop it into a microwave. Another question would be where to conduct my search. I read in Tesla notes on TV signal about concept of carbon printing. He wrote that gelatin treated with dichromates turns rock hard and impermeable to water. I cannot find anything more about the physical characteristics of such gelatin or about the possible hazards related to toxicity of encapsulated dichromates. I think I can obtain them easily by electrolysis of stainless steel. Once the electrolyte runs dry it turns from murky gray to bright orange.

Fantastic tip! I will try to follow your receipt and your concept. Thank you!

Wow. That is brilliant stuff. Vegans and vegetarians will have a mental meltdown at the thought of gelatin however. I have no issue with it however. I am trying to find the copper fulminate Robert has also made. Anyone got a clue which video that is? Keep up the good work.

Glad you made this one 👍

Brilliant! Would this coat silver as well, or does it only adhere to iron? I also wanted to say that I really respect you sharing this discovery - and I'm so sorry there are jerks appearing claiming it as their own. Perhaps you could patent it yourself. You could market it as a jewelry making product as well as electronics. Crystals in copper are getting pretty trendy on Etsy, even with that rough texture you spoke of in another video.

Wonderful Robert!

audio volume is very low.most of key words are not understood..nice to display the names of chemicals being used.

Well done.. You are a very cleaver and interesting man ..Thank you,This is food for my brain,I am only a backyard fiddler..cheers..

Good job! Can I use acetic acid instead of formic acid?

Thank you, I'm not as ignorant as the day before.

I agree. Seems I’ve come across some that are duplicating your processes. Yet really don’t give the credit due.

Is there anything that can be substituted for the formic acid?

Cheap, simple and give good results. That s why I like your channel. Do you think an eutectic solvent can replace the gelatine?

The one dislike was the thief.

4:35 serious bass.....

OMG this is from 2014! It all sounds very complicated. I just want to copper plate some stainless steel.

Good day sir i was just wondering if you could list all the the required ingrediance and tempatures used in this process thank you

So is this the stuff you used to rub on the paint scraper in the other video for plating steel without electricity?

ok I am loving the videos is there anywhere in Australia I can buy ready made copper nano gell/past? although I will be trying out lots of your ideas ( as man cave projects) my first aim is to rebuild and plate a radiator surround for my car restoration project, the science bit is a bit of a distraction just at the moment? again brilliant videos! makes a change from my background in joinery and polymer welding of Dam liners :)

Have you tried other acids apart from fumeric such as citric acid or acetic acid? With the copper nanoparticles stabilised in gelatin have you tried to chelate them in EDTA to form a stable water dispersion?

I'm trying to find red copper oxide, but on ebay is only ebay black copper oxide. Does that make any difference?

I do appreciate you are sharing your knowledge and ideas, Sir. And I do hope that Hannibal Lecter smile you had mentioning credits will scare the s.. out the thiefs as well... :) As not being a native english speaking person, I have to concentrate strong on your words to understand everything right, would you please consider setting up a better microphone to avoit that echo? Maybe some sort of a donation opportunity would help you get it with the help of your viewers community...

This is a wonderful process. Thank you for sharing! Would this coppering gel work on stainless steel? I am thinking about copper plating my stainless steel kitchen appliances.

You used 300 bloom, porcine gelatin. Where do you get it from? Also, does it have to be this type? CouId I use beef or vegetable gelatin, and does it have to be a specific bloom?

can you heat up the formic acid to hot and cause it to all go bad, or would it have to boil off to be ruined?

Which acid you use with mix of water please write here

I prefer PVP to gelatin - more stable over the long term.

Thank you very much for the information, I would like to know something; I was reading about gelatin as I am also using it as a polymer composite in my project, they saying that when you microwave gelatin, its proline part changes from l-proline to d-proline and they said if it changes it becomes toxic, so i wanted to hear your opinion on that matter

Will this work on aluminum?

Send me link of this research article

could you use agar gelatin?

Hi, I couldn't understand what is the alternative to formic acid, is it ascorbic acid, or sorbic acid? you see, there seems to be some sort of regulation regarding the selling of formic acid where I live, not sure why though... I'm still trying to contact a local pesticide maker to get some samples of formic acid but my expectations are pretty low.

Good Sir Robert, i would like to ask for your permission, to download large groups of your videos on to micro sd drives for my personal library? ....and maybe also a hundred more, to give to fellow aspiring chemists and metallurgists that i meet? The implications of even a small hand full of your videos is more than enough motivation for me to do what i can to spread your discoveries and to give credit where credit is do. What better way to do that, then to carry your entire video library in my pocket when im going to a trade or tech convention. I know of semi-reliable manufactures lol ...that sell 16gb micro flash drives for $5 USD when bought in bulk. (Thank you CHINA) i would like to give away 100 collections of your work and it will only cost me $500 USD. If only one of them changes the world for the better....money well spent! Id like to even hot glue the sd drives to business cards, that would be the best contact card i ever got! lol

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7:24. Have you considered a Creative Commons license? It should nip that issue in the bud.

Copper formate breaks down to carbon dioxide, hydrogen and copper. But these particles are not copper nanoparticles. Copper nanoparticles must be necessarily handled in inert atmosphere or with an oxygen scavenger to preserve their purity. At best, as you said they are large particles. Is the title is misleading?

kewl our group name is "ALOIS" done deal :D Did I miss a new video on GO. earlier?

BUT WHAT DO U DO WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Social distancing of copper lol