Nanoartography image of the month
Each month an image from the past NanoArtography finalists will be selected. The image of the month will be shown on the NanoArtograhy webpage and its Facebook page. Check back every month to see if your image is selected!
Congratulations to all!
April 2021
A Crystalline Silver Flower
Jacopo Profili, Université Laval- Chu de Québec, Québec city, Canada
Material: Silver nanoparticles on a silicon substrate
Image size: The image width is ~ 0.1 mm.
NanoArtography 2020 finalist
Image description by the scientist/artist: A thin and delicate layer of silver nanoparticles has been shaken by ionized gas. This energetic gas strongly interacts with the surface and modifies the fabric of the matter. As a result, the spheres change their shape and slow growth to form sharp structures well distributed on the surface. These poetic flowers spread over the silicon surface like fragile emerald crystals. Here, by using scanning electron microscopy, we discover the beautiful organization of these tiny particles on a purple carpet.
March 2021
The Lost Flower of Snegurochka (“Snow Maiden”)
Rajashree Konar and Gilbert Daniel Nessim, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Material: Silver sulfide
Image size: The image width is ~ 0.02 mm.
NanoArtography 2019 winner
Image description by the scientist/artist: The flowers are of silver sulfide synthesized using an atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition (APCVD). The microstructure has unique flowers growing at the tip of the hollows.
February 2021
Bismuth heart
Wei Sun, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Material: Bismuth nanoparticles
Image size: The image width is ~ 0.01 mm.
NanoArtography 2017 winner
Image description by the scientist/artist: Randomly assembled bismuth nanoparticles formed a heart shape during the drying process. Because of the heart-like shape, we colorized the bismuth nanoparticles red.
January 2021
Mysterious Night at Rocky Mountain
Ulugbek Shaislamov, Jeju National University, South Korea
Material: Copper nanorods
Image size: The image width is 0.55 mm.
NanoArtography 2017 winner
Image description by the scientist/artist: Presented vertically aligned nanostructures are copper nanorod arrays that were prepared by the template-based electrodeposition method. The irregular height of the nanorods resembles a mountain that is lit by moonlight at mysterious night.
December 2020
Zinc Oxide Moon
J. A. Allen, J. Aarthy Tagore, M. Manoj Prabhakar, C. Viswanathan, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Material: Zinc oxide
Image size: The diameter of the zinc oxide moon is 0.012 mm
NanoArtography 2019 winner
Image description by the scientist/artist: Zinc Oxide Moon is synthesized using the hydrothermal method. It is a dense microsphere composed of irregular nanosheets. In dark, zinc oxide moon illuminates.
November 2020
Crystal Harvest
Sarah Gleeson, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Material: Calcium phosphate
Image size: The width of the image is ~0.008 mm
NanoArtography 2019 winner
Image description by the scientist/artist: Calcium phosphate mineral grows into large, plate-like sheets from the polymer substrate it was deposited onto. These flat, jagged crystalline sheets grow outwards surrounding a center of smaller mineral crystals. This image was captured by a scanning electron microscope.
October 2020
Hellfire
Jizhen Zhang, Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
Material: 2D nano titanium carbide (Ti3C2 MXene)
Image size: The width of the image is ~0.2 mm
NanoArtography 2018 winner
Image description by the scientist/artist: The image represents a cross-section of MXene (Ti3C2Tx) aerogel film prepared by the freeze-drying approach being developed by our research group. The combination of MXene flakes and porous forms flame-like architecture. The MXene aerogel film with highly aligned MXene flakes and connected interspace enable high rate charge and discharge for energy storage applications. This image was captured by a scanning electron microscope.
September 2020
Copper on Carbon Fiber
Amir Masoud Pourrahimi, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Fibre and Polymer Technology, Sweden
Material: Copper superstructures on carbon fiber
Image size: The width of the image is ~0.01mm
NanoArtography 2017 finalist
Image description by the scientist/artist: The scanning electron micrograph of copper superstructures on carbon fiber, which are synthesized by electrodeposition. The conductive and high surface-area-to-volume carbon fibers were here used as a substrate for the deposition of copper metals. The deposited copper hierarchical superstructures were assembled from intersecting nano-sheets, resulting in a grid-like morphology. The pores located between the nano-sheets (10-50 nm) resulted in high porosity and specific surface area.
August 2020
Lord of the Rings
Nina Tarnowicz, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
Material: SCdSe/CdS nanoparticles on a PVA-coated substrate
Image size: Image width is ~ 0.87 mm
NanoArtography 2017 finalist
Image description by the scientist/artist: Image presents aggregates of CdSe/CdS nanoparticles (quantum dots, dot in a rod type) on a PVA-coated substrate, poured with popular nematic liquid crystal - MBBA. Skipping the whole scientific side of the image, it reminds me of the Middle-earth and the inscription on the One Ring written with Elvish letters (tengwar). One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
July 2020
The Starry Night under TEM (Evolution of peptide nanostructures)
Charalampos Pappas, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, USA
Material: Supramolecular peptide nanostructures
Image size: Image width is ~ 0.001 mm (1 µm)
NanoArtography 2017, second place winner
Image description: This transmission electron microscope (TEM) image represents an example of a supramolecular peptide nanostructure that was discovered using a dynamic peptide library approach, where peptide sequences are dynamically exchanged, giving rise to a competition of sequences and resulting in the spontaneous selection and formation of stable self-assembling nanostructures.
JUNE 2020
Mary and Yamada’s Concrete Rose
Gabriel Burks, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
Material: Poly(vinylidene fluoride) PVDF hedrite agglomerates
Image size: Image width is ~ 0.02 mm (20 µm)
NanoArtography 2016 finalist
Image description: ln homage to the late Tupac Shakur's "The Rose that Grew from Concrete," this image is dedicated to all the beautiful things that manifest as the result of great struggle, tremendous opposition, and less than optimal conditions. This rose garden is for the dreamer that wants to desperately escape from their current plight into a place where anything is possible and where dreams really do come true. I find this theme to be particularly relevant given today's set of current events where underrepresented minorities in the United States of America find themselves at a crossroads between patriotism and civil human rights. It is sad to say that in the 21st century human beings are slain by law enforcement like wild animals, but just as the rose grew from concrete, this situation will also bear a beautiful and inspiring miracle.
Scientifically speaking, this image is one of colorized Poly(vinylidene fluoride) PVDF hedrite agglomerates viewed under a scanning electron microscope.
May 2020
