The modern art of nano materials through intstrumentation
Gaberlunzie has always been delighted by the art that emerges from science. Both organic and inorganic can be quite amazingly beautiful as this selection of three , courtesy of the US Materials
Research Society shows. For eleven easily accessible Wired has the easiest site to access.
(Above) At Stanford University, Zhenan Bao and her team of researchers work to make organic transistors for cutting-edge electronic devices. One of her graduate students, Zihong Liu, used a cross-polarized light microscope to examine this array of the tiny switches. For Liu, bright parts of the film look like lakes and mountains, while the gold electrodes appear to be a fence.
(Above) Zinc oxide nanoneedles, colourised to resemble a traditional Chinese mountain painting At Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, postdoctoral scholar Hui Ying Yang was examining zinc oxide nanoneedles when she saw an image that resembled the mountains as portrayed in classical Chinese paintings. To enhance the resemblance, Yang colorized the scene and added part of the original painting.
(Above) Nickel-titanium alloys scientists with their ability to spring back into a pre-set shape after lots of abuse -- just heat them and they will recover. At the Max Planck Institute for Metallurgy in Stuttgart, Germany, Blythe Gore Clark used a focused ion beam to form this micropillar and then a nanoindenter to compress it. Her transmission-electron -microscope image shows the effects of strain on the tiny metal rod.
Source: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/04/gallery_nano_art?slide=4&slideView=6
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