Science as Art
Visualization methods provide an important tool in materials science for the analysis and presentation of scientific work. Images can often convey information in a way that tables of data or equations cannot match. Occasionally, scientific images transcend their role as a medium for transmitting information, and contain the aesthetic qualities that transform them into objects of beauty and art.
Only a select few Science as Art images have won at our Spring and Fall Meetings, but even fewer still have been made into our Science as Art notecards. It's time to make new cards, and we want YOU to help pick the featured images.
Vote for your favorites on Facebook by hitting the "like" button on the image. The 10 images with the most likes by 5 p.m. (ET), May 29, 2013, win!
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As a special feature of MRS Meetings, we offer the popular Science as Art competitions with entry open to all registered meeting attendees. The galleries below represent some of the best entries from past meetings. In addition, we invite you to view this video featuring some of the best entries from past MRS Science as Art competitions.
First and second place images from the 2013 MRS Spring Meeting Science as Art competition
Read More »First-place images from the 2012 MRS Fall Meeting Science as Art competition include "Carbon Galaxy," "Not Your Average Sunflower," and "The Micro Spacecraft."
Read More »First-place images from the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting Science as Art competition include "A Dendritic Baby Giraffe Born Inside Ni-Al-C Melt," "The Dark Forest of GaAs/GaInP Nanowire," and "Mountains of Organic Crystal Snow."
Read More »First-place images from the 2011 MRS Fall Meeting Science as Art competition include "Still Life of Flowers, Mushrooms and Other Vegetation," "Van Gogh Painted with a Glassy Polymer," and "Autumn's Drought."
Read More »First-place images from the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting Science as Art competition include "Nano Graveyard," "NanoFlower" and "Salt Crystals."
Read More »First-place images from the 2010 MRS Fall Meeting Science as Art competition include "The Silk Collective," "Stem of Nanoflowers" and "Rising Moon."
Read More »First-place images from the 2010 MRS Spring Meeting Science as Art competition include "Self-illuminating Flowers of Pandora," "Nano PacMan Made of Copper Oxide" and "ZnO Nanowire Arrays."
Read More »First-place images from the 2009 MRS Fall Meeting Science as Art competition include "SiC-SiC Composite," "Van Gogh Nanotubes" and "Squaring the Circle."
Read More »First-place images from the 2009 MRS Spring Meeting Science as Art competition include "Pollenesian Serenity," "Nano Spaghetti & Meatballs" and "The Modern Stonehenge."
Read More »First-place images from the 2008 MRS Fall Meeting Science as Art competition include "The Nano-Grip," "Nanoflower" and "Nano Teddy Bear."
Read More »First-place images from the 2008 MRS Spring Meeting Science as Art competition include "Field of Sunflowers," "Landscape" and "Inferno."
Read More »First-place images from the 2007 MRS Fall Meeting Science as Art competition include "Nano-Explosions," "Bamboos for Vibration Control" and "Dirty Dice."
Read More »First-place images from the 2007 MRS Spring Meeting Science as Art competition include "Gold Nanopyramids," "Sunflowers" and "An Early Morning Stroll Into Woods."
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