Thursday , 23 May 2013

2010 MRS Spring Meeting "Science as Art" Winners

First Place

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Jian Shi, University of Wisconsin
Self-illuminating flowers of Pandora
This picture is created from a high resolution SEM image of a zinc oxide “nanoflower” synthesized by a physical vapor deposition technique.

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Elisabetta Comini, University of Brescia, Italy
Nano PacMan made of copper oxide
Scanning electron microscope image of a copper oxide cluster, 3.5 microns in diameter, prepared by evaporation and condensation over an alumina substrate. The smiley nose and eye are present in the original SEM image, which has only been color-enhanced.

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Surawut Chuangchote, Kyoto University
ZnO Nanowire Arrays
SEM image of vertically aligned ZnO nanowire arrays with a standing human-like form. Color was added to the original image.

Second Place

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Sung H. Kang, Harvard University
Micro Sea

A scanning electron microscope image of the 250 nm diameter polymer fibers capturing 2 um polymer spheres by evaporative self-assembly. The image brings mind to eggs of fish on marine plants in a sea. The SEM image was taken by a Zeiss Ultra 55 field emission scanning electron microscope and color enhancement was done using Adobe Photoshop.

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Yongxing Hu, University of California, Riverside
Watermelon on Pandora
Colorized SEM image of the superparamagnetic poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) microspheres with Fe2O3 nanocrystals self-assembly on the surface and inside.

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David Gracias, Johns Hokins University
Bad Pitch
SEM image of microbeads lying outside a self-assembled 500 micron sized box.

Source: http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/doc.asp?CID=1803&DID=171434

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