Category: 2020
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Chemistry is Fire
Label Chemistry is Fire Artist Drake Beery Description Close up image of a pure compound that is used to create a photomechanical polymer that when exposed to ultra-violet light will cause the polymer films to bend with directional control based on the polarization of the incident light. These materials are typically used in a variety…
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Mistakes Were Made
Label Mistakes Were Made Artist Judy Roth Description Several compounds I attempted to synthesize that did not turn out as expected were used in this art piece to create a flower. The green and purple compounds are Chromium containing compounds (dehydrated and hydrated). The compound in the middle is metallic, a synthesis fail from manganese…
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Eyeball
Label Eyeball Artist Jiaqi Chen Description What is in the photo? A red eyeball! It is actually a by-product after a column. Save “useless” product sometimes. Maybe it will be a miracle in the future, like becoming an eyeball! In Hanson research group, we will design and synthesis light absorbing and emitting molecules. Making molecules…
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The beauty of microscale structures for halide perovskites
Label The beauty of microscale structures for halide perovskites Artist Jue Gong Description Solution-synthesized perovskite CH3NH3PbBr3 display high-crystallinity versatile structures at micrometer scale — wires, cubes and plates, which enable well-defined research of this material on the settings of optics, electronics, optoelectronics, such as solar cells, lasers, photodetectors, and light-emitting diodes. This research content was…
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The Swope Telescope and Earth’s Shadow
Label The Swope Telescope and Earth’s Shadow Artist Jing Lu Description This is a photograph of the Swope Telescope located in Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. It was taken during one of the observation night back in June 2017. Swope is a 1-meter telescope which was the first telescope located the optical source of the gravitational…
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Metamorphosis
Label Metamorphosis Artist Egdaq Claudio Description This image is part of a healing process after a Thyroidectomy. This procedure was done after being diagnosed with Thyroid cancer. The complete removal of this butterfly-shaped organ was the beginning of a metamorphosis in consciousness, physical adaptation and healing. This image reflects a dual and metaphorical metamorphosis: the…
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Bottled Lightning
Label Bottled Lightning Artist Angel Chu, co-artist Nikolas Dos Santos Description The picture shows well defined crystals of 4,4′-((1E,1’E)-(4,6-dimethyl-1,3-phenylene)bis(ethene-2,1-diyl))bis(methylbenzene) under 310nm light. these crystals direct light through its center towards its edges like fiber optics. this structure will be used to form a substituted pyrene containing its substitutions in positions that are very scarce of…
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Neuronal Signaling of the Cerebellar-like Organoid Cells
Label Neuronal Signaling of the Cerebellar-like Organoid Cellse Artist Timothy Hua Description Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (HiPSCs) can differentiate into any cell types within the human body. They have been used to generate various organoid models that mimic the organs of interest such as the brain for development studying and disease modeling. The cerebellum (small…
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Chemistry is ~cool~
Label Chemistry is ~cool~ Artist Ashley Arcidiacono Description Chemistry is cool… quite literally in this image! Here, you see a cryogenic cuvette with a fluorescent sample placed inside. With the help of this cuvette and a cryostat, we are able to monitor complex light-matter phenomenon at temperatures as low as 77 K. Using temperature dependent…
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Photoswitch
Label Photoswitch Artist Noelle Watson Description Pictured is a reversible stimuli-responsive molecular switch. Application of an external stimuli (UV/visible light or an applied potential) can be used to switch between two different, thermodynamically stable forms. Molecular switches such as this one show great potential for applications in logic gates, photochromics, and sensing. Type Cell Phone…