Crystals in Art Competition 2020 Winners Announced!
BACG 'Crystals in Art' Competition
Crystals in Art 2020 Competition Winners
Sunrise Swords on the Frozen Lake
Entry: #4248 (1st Prize)
Contestant: Sean William Connolly
Affiliation: University of Kent
Object Imaged: Organic crystal of a Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adduct molecule
Conditions: Crystallised from Chloroform
Image taken with: Phone camera looking down microscope lens
Skyscrapers
Entry: #4272 (2nd Prize)
Contestant: Shiqiang Wang
Affiliation: University of Limerick
Object Imaged: A coordination polymer or metal-organic framework crystallized for 1.5 years!
Conditions: The solution was heated at around 100 degree C for 1 day and then filtered to a new vial. The vial was left still for 1.5 years.
Image taken with: Microscope; MeiTu software
Colour of Life
Entry: #4206 (3rd Prize)
Contestant: Rajshree Chakrabarti
Affiliation: University of Houston
Object Imaged: Protoporphyrin IX
Conditions: Crystallised from butanol
Image taken with: Scanning Electron Microscope
First prize: £150 & certificate
Second prize: £100 & certificate
Third prize: £50 & certificate!
All submitted entries are displayed below.
Butterflies and light fairies
Imaging technique used: Optical microscopy
Crystals of the amino acid glycine formed the shape of a butterfly on the edge of a 10 microlitre droplet dried on a glass slide. The crystals should have formed a ring at the edge of the droplet known as the “coffee-ring” but here a possible contamination with a fibre, appearing in the “wing” of the butterfly, seems to interrupt this phenomenon leading to the formation of a butterfly shape. |
Thank you to all our participants for sending in such fabulous entries.
Crstals in Art 2020 is now closed. The next competition will take place in 2021.