Felice Frankel Images/Lennart Nilsson Award 2007 1.

Pulling Cells A white blood cell being pulled away by a glass micropipette. I began with a very low resolution image made by the researchers and worked with Photoshop to create an image for a large permanent installation in a new Biomedical Engineering building on the campus of University of Washington in St.Louis. Researchers: Jin-Yu Shao (UWash, St.Louis) 2. Encapsulated Grating Jim Wilbur made a grating of plastic encapsulated in iridium. I composed the image under a stereomicroscope and included the transparent tape (bottom) that was holding the grating in place in the Petri dish. 3. Femtosecond Traces The colored dots, spaced about two micrometers apart, are areas created by femtosecond laser beam pulses in quartz. One femtosecond is 10-15 of a second! I used an optical microscope to make the picture. Researchers: E. Glezer, E. Mazur (Harvard University) 4. Ferrofluid Ferrofluid is a suspension of magnetite in oil. I placed a 3-cm drop of the liquid on a piece of glass. Under the glass is a yellow post-it and under the post-it are seven circular magnets pushing and pulling the ferrofluid into this interesting shape. You can see the reflection of a window pane and the green card I held above the sample. I used a 105mm macro lens on my camera. 5. Neds Iridescence 1 The colors in Neds Iridescence 1 are from selective constructive interference of special material called block co-polymers, sandwiched between two thin discs of glass, one centimeter wide. Researchers: E. Thomas, H. Lee (MIT) 6. Julias Yeast Colonies A study in morphologies of two types of yeast colonies containing different genetic material. Here, at my request, Julia grew wild type colonies and mutant colonies on the same Petri dish. I used a stereomicroscope to make the image. Researchers: J. Kohler, J. Liu, G. Fink (MITs Whitehead Institute) 7. Neds Buckling Gold This microscopic image shows a gold layer only an atom or two thick Notice how the herringbone pattern changes into another pattern because of the presence of the large round defects. Researchers: G.M. Whitesides, N. Bowden, S. Brittain, A. G. Evans, J.W. Hutchinson (Harvard University)

8. Nicks Liquid crystals Liquid crystals combine both properties of crystals, with their orderly arranged atoms, and liquid, whose atoms and molecules gyrate in a disorderly way. When heat is applied, we can see color changes. I photographed the image under a microscope. Researches: N.L. Abbott (University of Wisconsin), R.A. Drawhorn (University of California at Davis) 9. Proteus Patterns This pattern begins when a few bacteria placed in the center of a Petri dish with nutrients. As the bacteria breed, they occupy more space and become denser. Eventually some leave the main group to colonize a new area, and the process begins again. The cycle of growth, stasis, and re-growth in this living pattern can be mathematically described and has many analogies in the biological and physical worlds. Researcher: J. Shapiro (University of Chicago) 10. Water Drops on Gold I made this simple image of water drops beading up on a gold surface to demonstrate the properties of a hydrophobic (just like your waxed car). I used a 105 macro lens and shot the image for On the Surface of Things. Images of the Extraordinary in Science, a book I coauthored with George Whitesides. 11. Yeast Flower Under specific growing conditions, yeast form a floral-like colony. I used a 105 macro lens and deleted the Petri Dish with Photoshop. Researchers: G. Fink, T. Reynolds (Whitehead Institute - MIT) 12. Bubbles Because these particular bubbles are trapped between glass walls, their shapes are different from what we are used to seeing. However, they still have the same colored interference patterns and turbulence as other bubbles. I used a 105mm macroscopic lens on my camera.