SCIENCE AS ART
Feathers of the ocean
Prapti Kafle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
A cross-polarized microscopy image of a nanothin film of an anti-cancer drug, ellipticine, on an edible polysaccharide, pullulan. The film, produced by solution shearing of the drug solution under highly non-equilibrium conditions, embraces an elegant morphology with oriented needles and spherulites that resembles feathers of a bird, perhaps camouflaging in the ocean.
A Finalist from the Science as Art competition at the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting.
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