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Beauty Under the Microscope

Thayer engineering students (mostly Ph.D. candidates) recently produced images to highlight the creativity and beauty of research as part of a Visionaries in Technology contest. Here are a few examples of their extreme close-ups.

Thayer engineering students (mostly Ph.D. candidates) recently produced images to highlight the creativity and beauty of research as part of a Visionaries in Technology contest. Here are a few examples of their extreme close-ups.

Brainballs
De-hydrated alginate spheres, imaged with the secondary electron detector in a scanning electron microscope (SEM).
Philipp Hunger
Damage Features on a Metal Hip Implant
Imaged at 100x using a Keyence microscope.
Steven Reinitz
Freshwater Ice Under Microscope
Digital photograph of thin section of polycrystalline S2 freshwater ice under cross-polarized light to illuminate its columnar-grained microstructure.
Scott Snyder
Jelly Fish
Calcium carbonate crystal, false colored with a blue filter.
Philipp Hunger
Layer by Layer
Sintered, freeze-cast hydroxyapatite scaffold with horizontal canal, templated by an alginate strut.
Philipp Hunger
Microridged Scaffolds
Highly aligned microridges run alongside the walls in ice-templated carboxymethylcellulose scaffolds.
Margaret Wu
Nano Autumn
Chitosan scaffold imaged by SEM at 100X. First-place winner (tied).
Fioleda Prifti
Nano Bloom
Nanocellulose fibril scaffold. Second-place winner (tied).
Fioleda Prifti
Pacman
Chitosan Spheres with additional “burnmarks” created with the electron beam.
Philipp Hunger
Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) Vertical Nanofiber Array
PVDF fiber with 300nm diameter and 3um length fabricated by template assisted method. First-place winner (tied).
Dajing Chen
Atlas’ Hand
Debris adhered to the inner surface of a titanium tube was deposited during cutting of the tube and caused detrimental scratches.
Jay Vincelli