Welcome to my personal blog “Chem & Resonance”

Welcome to my personal blog “Chem & Resonance”, where music and chemistry are no longer discrete concepts. For me, learning to understand music follows the routine of learning about basic music theories, understanding the emotions embedded within pieces by composers, and eventually blending in personalized emotions within performances. Generally speaking, this is a process in which I transform from passively accept interpretations to making my own interpretations.

 I sensed a similar process when I try to understand how chemistry works. It starts from understanding basic reaction mechanisms to understanding how minute differences makes different materials unique macroscopically. I want to build this channel as a mini encyclopedia of basic information and interesting facts of chemical materials. Unlike music, which can be perceived with our senses, chemical materials are more obscure to majority of viewers. So I blend in music for every episode to make “personified” characteristics of chemical materials. I hope this design can make chemical traits more understandable and more accessible to more readers.

Let’s get started in the first material – MOF, which stands for metal organic Framework.