MRS: But is it art?
This year at MRS there is a Science as Art competition. It's the sixth installment of the competition, and prizes are announced tomorrow. The winners are voted for by conference attendees, and will walk about with prizes of $400 and $200.
Here are some snaps of my favourites out of the 40-something entrants (sorry for the poor quality of the images).
This is a picture of stress-induced delamination of a CF4 thin film by Thomas Brunschwiler, from IBM research
Nano-Metropolis is a scanning electron micrograph image of monoclinic gallium oxide nanostructures, taken by Emilio Nogales, from the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
Microscale Landscape by Jianping Ge, from the University of California, Riverside, US, is an image of self-assembly of colloidal polystyrene particles, in layers, and is rather pretty.
And finally, Coral Reef, by a reseracher from the University of Utah. It's not really a coral reef.
