MVC12

Best of Show

Iridescent webs: Hydrogel networks formed by the phase separation of triblock copolymers

Elisabeth Lloyd, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Artist’s Statement: My inspiration for this submission came from the way light interacts with oil on water, like spilled gasoline on wet pavement. Just like oil, polystyrene doesn't mix with water. I like to envision the hydrogel network as forming from a mesh of millions of tiny iridescent bubbles strung together to form a multicolored web.

Scientific Category

First Place

Network of dislocations in a two-dimensional material

Saiphaneendra Bachu, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Artist’s Statement: Defects in materials are fascinating for their structural features and they tremendously affect the material properties. Even though there are many ways to study defects in materials, directly visualizing them in their native form is very powerful to understand their complex structures. To that end, this image is taken from an electron microscope which is powerful enough to resolve features at nanometer length scales. This enables us to look at the defects present in materials and understand their origin (dislocations in 2D material in this particular example).

Second Place

Microstructure of a duplex stainless steel alloy fabricated using additive manufacturing

Andrew Iams, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Artist’s Statement: The microstructure inspires imagery of looking through a single snowflake falling through the sky, where the sun light is refracted by the ice crystal and the seven colors of the visual light spectrum manifest within the voids.

Third Place

Hydrogel Fiber After Resubmerged into Water

Kelly Matuszewski, Undergraduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Artist’s Statement: The image as seen has come directly from my microscope image and has not been retouched at all. When focusing the microscope on the hydrogel fiber, I was surprised to see the incongruence in the fiber’s diameter. I had not been able to focus on a resubmerged fiber so well before, and it has taken many trial and errors to figure out the best way to get good images for our research. Getting this very sharp image is great so that we can see and compare this recovered hydrogel to others to advance our research and what we know. We know that there is uniformity in hydrogels that have not been previously strained, so the bumps on the edges are most likely from plastic deformation from straining the hydrogel. Further research is being done to study this observable phenomena.

Visual Category

First Place

Rhenium at the beach: Electron-beam evaporation of rhenium on sapphire

Alex Molina, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Artist’s Statement: Growing up in Long Island—fifteen minutes from the ocean—I found myself daydreaming about the beach every moment of the school day. If I was not at school, I was by the ocean, walking the boardwalk, listening to the waves crash, or taking in the breeze coming off the watery front. It seems that I may never shake this feeling because after imaging my rhenium samples I found myself thinking of the beach once more. Using a Nikon L200ND optical microscope at 10X, Rhenium films deposited on a sapphire substrate were imaged. The sapphire substrate represents the ocean, while the rhenium films represent the sand.

Second Place

Iridescent webs: Hydrogel networks formed by the phase separation of triblock copolymers

Elisabeth Lloyd, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Artist’s Statement: My inspiration for this submission came from the way light interacts with oil on water, like spilled gasoline on wet pavement. Just like oil, polystyrene doesn't mix with water. I like to envision the hydrogel network as forming from a mesh of millions of tiny iridescent bubbles strung together to form a multicolored web.

Third Place

Hierarchical twinning nanodomains on the surface of a (111)-oriented lead titanate thin film

Bo Wang, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Artist’s Statement: Saying goodbye to the deep blue ocean and the golden sunflowers, summer by the sea finally gives way to autumn by the mountain, embracing the amber leaves and purple sunset. They will finally be buried by the icy and snowy winter. Day after day, season following season, I maintain a well-ordered life in a world full of disorders while craving for subtle changes within the repetitions.

Computational/Modeling

First Place

Hierarchical twinning nanodomains on the surface of a (111)-oriented lead titanate thin film

Bo Wang, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Artist’s Statement: Saying goodbye to the deep blue ocean and the golden sunflowers, summer by the sea finally gives way to autumn by the mountain, embracing the amber leaves and purple sunset. They will finally be buried by the icy and snowy winter. Day after day, season following season, I maintain a well-ordered life in a world full of disorders while craving for subtle changes within the repetitions.

People's Choice Award

Network of dislocations in a two-dimensional material

Saiphaneendra Bachu, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Artist’s Statement: Defects in materials are fascinating for their structural features and they tremendously affect the material properties. Even though there are many ways to study defects in materials, directly visualizing them in their native form is very powerful to understand their complex structures. To that end, this image is taken from an electron microscope which is powerful enough to resolve features at nanometer length scales. This enables us to look at the defects present in materials and understand their origin (dislocations in 2D material in this particular example).

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Twelfth Annual Materials Visualization Competition 2020

Best of Show

Iridescent webs: Hydrogel networks formed by the phase separation of triblock copolymers

Elisabeth Lloyd, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering ​

Scientific Category

First Place

Network of dislocations in a two-dimensional material

Saiphaneendra Bachu, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering ​

Second Place

Microstructure of a duplex stainless steel alloy fabricated using additive manufacturing

Andrew Iams, Graduate Student, ​Materials Science and Engineering ​

Third Place

Hydrogel Fiber After Resubmerged into Water

Kelly Matuszewski, ​Undergraduate Student, ​Materials Science and Engineering

Visual Category

First Place

Rhenium at the beach: Electron-beam evaporation of rhenium on sapphire

Alex Molina, Graduate Student, ​Materials Science and Engineering ​

Second Place

Iridescent webs: Hydrogel networks formed by the phase separation of triblock copolymers

Elisabeth Lloyd, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering ​

Third Place

Hierarchical twinning nanodomains on the surface of a (111)-oriented lead titanate thin film

Bo Wang, Graduate Student, ​Materials Science and Engineering ​

Computational/Modeling

First Place

Hierarchical twinning nanodomains on the surface of a (111)-oriented lead titanate thin film

Bo Wang, Graduate Student, ​Materials Science and Engineering ​

People's Choice Award

Network of dislocations in a two-dimensional material

Saiphaneendra Bachu, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering ​

Elisabeth Lloyd, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Saiphaneendra Bachu, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Andrew Iams, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Kelly Matuszewski, Undergraduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Alex Molina, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Elisabeth Lloyd, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Bo Wang, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Bo Wang, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Saiphaneendra Bachu, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering