Totally Tubular

A photograph of six test tubes held up against a bright, slightly cloudy blue sky. Each tube contains a liquid of a different color, forming a gradient from left to right: deep red, vibrant orange, golden yellow, olive green, muted blue-gray, and dark brown. The tubes are held together by a gloved hand at the top, allowing sunlight to pass through the liquids and highlight their varying levels of transparency.

Label: Totally Tubular
Artist: Ashley Arcidiacono
Description: Here you’ll see some of our many dyes that we use in the Hanson Research Group for future applications in dye-sensitized solar cells. These dyes are adsorbed on to mesoporous metal oxide nanoparticle films and, upon excitation, are able to inject electrons into the MOx conduction band.
Type: DSLR, edits were made for the background
Artist Affiliation: Graduate Student
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Area of Research: Materials chemistry
Date: 2021