It depends a lot on what kind of chemistry lab one works in. Having worked at in fluorescence microscopy in my MSc, then at Canada's Nanotechnology Research Cen

It depends a lot on what kind of chemistry lab one works in. Having worked at in fluorescence microscopy in my MSc, then at Canada's Nanotechnology Research Centre & at Xerox's Research Centre in Mississauga, and later working with liquid crystals at TU Eindhoven I've had the joy of seeing some incredible colour in the lab. There's so much information which can be encoded spectroscopically, which is one reason why nanoparticles make for such useful probes.