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Carbon Nano Onions
Arno Rettenbacher and Luis Echegoyen
Carbon Nano Onions (CNOs) are species where several fullerenes (buckyballs) having various diameters arrange themselves -- Russian doll-style -- concentrically one inside the other. That is why ...
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Molten Carbon Material
Santanu Kundu and Martin Beagley
This material is called mesophase pitch, a liquid-crystalline material that is used to manufacture carbon fibers and composites. The yellow, blue, and magenta colors represent the directions of ...
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Histological Processing of Cell-based Fiber
Willie Jones, Phillip Brown and Karen J. L. Burg
This photograph displays five-micron histological sections of a hollow fiber with a green fluorescent protein that labels the mammary epithelial gland cells in the lumen. Cell-based devices are ...
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Curious Eye
Pu-Chun Ke, Joan Hudson and Yonnie Wu
“Curious Eye” is the name given to this image by its authors. The image shows highly regular binding of phospholipids, (the major component of cell membranes), to single-walled carbon ...
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Oyster Cell Making Oyster Shell
Josh Mount and Andrew Mount
This pseudocolor scanning electron micrograph image shows an oyster blood cell, or hemocyte, moving across the surface of newly formed shell. These cells manipulate calcite plates (visible ...
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Pythium Starry Sun
Terry Walker and Caye Drapcho
The oil that can be taken from biomass may be the primary source of fuel and nutraceutical/pharmaceutical compounds within the next century. This micrograph shows an oil droplet with fungal ...
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The Blue Abyss
Scott M. Husson and Nripen Singh
This is an image of a porous polymer membrane taken by a scanning electron microscope. It illustrates what it would be like to travel through this cavernous “abyss,” as do the molecules that ...
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X-ray Scattering of a Polymer Fiber
Paulo Lopes and Martin Beagley
Polymers (plastics) are made into fibers for many different uses. The way the fibers behave when they are in use depends on the material they are made from and how the polymer chains are ...
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Fluctuations in Body Temperatures
Aaron Ramey, Michael Ellison and David White
Nephila clavipes is a South American orb-weaver that produces the strongest silk of any known spider species. When the spider is producing silk, it is believed that its body temperature changes ...
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Blossoms
Xiaohua Ji
Nanocrystalline materials possess grain sizes on the order of a billionth of a meter. They manifest extremely fascinating and useful properties, which can be exploited for a variety of ...
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A Matter of Scale: Linking Biological Carbon and Iron Cycling in a Desert Ecosystem
Harry Kurtz
Microbial life is everywhere, affecting the world around us. In Southeastern Utah, microbial communities are found residing in stone and soil. Our studies of these ecosystems are showing that ...
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Arabica Infusion
Johnny McGregor
This is an image of freshly roasted coffee beans. It is a wonderful demonstration of the chemical world of a food scientist (i.e., decarboxylation, dehydration, fractionization, isomerization, ...
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Attack of the Killer Perkinsus
Emily Jones
The picture is an image taken on a scanning electron microscope of two oyster hemocytes, or blood and immune cells infected with the parasite Perkinsus marinus. The hemocytes are the largest ...
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Barklice: Up Close and Personal
Eric Paysen
Clusters of immature barklice (Cerastipsocus venosus) are found on the trunks of trees where they are scavengers, searching for food on lichens, fungus, and dead plant or animal matter. They ...
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Beauty of Bone
Michael Zebuhr and Linda Jenkins
The magnified (400x) section of cortical bone shows a bone-forming cell called an osteoclast, and contains multiple nuclei. There are numerous small filaments that are called canaliculi, and ...
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Controlled Morphology Change of Fluoropolymer Nanoparticles
Stephen M Budy
These images were taken from scanning electron micrographs. The top left image is of post-functionalized perfluorocyclobutyl (PFCB) polymer nanoparticles on chromium substrate. The other images ...
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Cosmic Cradles of NGC 6611
