Science as Art
As a special feature of MRS meetings, we offer the popular Science as Art competitions with entry open to all registered meeting attendees.
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.
The galleries below represent some of the best entries from past meetings. Copyright for these images belongs to the Materials Research Society. To request permission to reuse the images, please contact us here.
Recent Science Art Winners
2024 MRS Spring Meeting
Let Me See
Yu Fan, DWI-Leibniz-Institute for Interactive Materials e.V.,
The Starry Night with Structural Color
Sanghyun Jeon, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Bismuth Landscape
Amy Wu, University of California, Irvine
A Dance in Silk
Sihan Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Microscale Willow Goldfinch
Yekaterina Tskhe, Trinity College Dublin
Dried Riverbed
Zenghao Zhang, University of Michigan
Science as Art Archives
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