Despite the current circumstances, the Illinois MakerLab continues to serve its community and of course, researchers on campus. Sean Preins and his team were struggling to find the perfect sized cuvettes to serve in their study of optical properties of fused silica samples that had been irradiated within the Large Hadron Collider. The Large Hadron Collider allows physicists to test different theories of particle physics. The Illinois MakerLab met their needs by printing custom cuvette holders that were designed by Sean and his team with Autodesk Inventor. These cuvette holders are vital for their study since they submerge their samples held in cuvettes into an index-matching fluid that will give the samples an optically consistent surface as told by Preins.

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