Art Gallery

This is an image of a pulsed laser deposition (PLD) chamber. The blue hue on the left is due to a laser, and the bright light near the center is a plasma plume. The right side is the interior of the chamber without the laser in use, and a red glow appears due to the heating of the substrate. The two halves of the image were captured simultaneously due to a mismatch in the frequency of the laser and the shutter speed of the camera. It was submitted by Liz for Purdue's SHINE:Showcasing Images in Nature & Engineering Exhibit in the summer of 2022 (funded by NSF Grant No. 2045908).

This is a plan-view STEM image showing the core-shell structure of self-assembled BaTiO3-AuxAg1-x hybrid metamaterial. The image was taken from high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy (HAADF-STEM) using Thermo Fisher Scientific Talos F200X TEM. This image was submitted to the MRS Spring 2021 Art Competition and was selected as a finalist for online voting. 

This image shows a SEM micrograph of flash sintered ZnO resembling swiss-cheese due to its highly porous structure. This was a winning entry in the ACerS ceramographic art competition in 2020 in the SEM category and it is featured in the Journal of American Ceramic Society.

This image shows a SEM micrograph of flash sintered ZnO resembling the well-known Fruit Loops cereal. This was a best in show for the ACerS ceramographic art competition in 2019 and it was featured in the Journal of American Ceramic Society.

The nanodumbbell structure enables vertical and tilted interfacial coupling, and highly improves the strain engineering efficiency and physical property of the nanocomposite films. This image was published in Applied Materials Today.

The "nanoman" is a self-assembled ordered three-phase Au-BaTiO3-ZnO metamaterial with Au nanoparticles capping the ZnO nanowires, embedded in the BaTiO3 matrix. This image was published in Advanced Materials.