SCIENCE AS ART
Edge of the world
Alana Ogata, Harvard University, USA
At one point, humans believed that the earth was flat and that an “edge of the world” existed where the ocean fell off into darkness. Today, I can fabricate a film of carbon nanotube bundles and image its chaotic, ocean-like waves by electron microscopy with nanoscale resolution. This uncoated-scanning electron microscopy (SEM) cross section image shows a film of entangled single-walled carbon nanotubes falling off the edge of a glass substrate. It is fabricated for novel nanomaterials in biosensing and disease diagnostics.
A Second Place Winner from the Science as Art competition at the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting.
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