A round-bottom flask containing a shiny red crystalline substance.
Congrats to #CENChemPics March winner Kristóf Hegedüs. Read more about these cancer-killing crystals: cen.acs.org/synthesis/me...
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A round-bottom flask containing a shiny red crystalline substance.
In nature, brilliant colors like the ruby hue of the crystals in this flask are often a sign of danger. Fortunately, cancer cells don’t have eyes. The fiery-colored substance is a highly potent derivative of the chemotherapy drug daunorubicin. Read more: cen.acs.org/synthesis/me...
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Several cuvette-shaped blocks of clear, brightly colored material.
These blocks contain precisely measured fluorescent dyes dispersed in polymethyl methacrylate, according to Starna Cells. Analytical chemists use them to calibrate the lamps and detectors in fluorescence-based spectroscopy instruments. cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
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Congrats to #CENChemPics February winners Lauren Jesmain, @patricklutz.bsky.social, and Jennifer Schmeisser. Read more about this sprinkle explosion: cen.acs.org/education/Ch...
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Eli Sloutskin and Alexander Butenko watched this droplet transform as they lowered and then raised its temperature. Their work could be useful in manufacturing micro- and nanoparticles and creating new metamaterials. cen.acs.org/physical-che...
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A large white rectangular sheet of silica has a blotchy, dark-purple streak running along the bottom. From that streak emanate a series of bands of pastel pinks and oranges that have traveled up the sheet.
After @annaporyvai.bsky.social tried purifying her reaction product using preparative thin-layer chromatography (prep-TLC), her silica plate ended up looking like an impressionist’s attempt at painting daybreak. Read more: cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
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The burst of green light emanating from this orange crystal when it is gently placed into a bed of silica gel is a dramatic demonstration of how a material’s surroundings can change its properties. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/Ch...
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A beaker with dozens of tiny, fused, nearly rectangular clear crystals coating the bottom.
Congrats to #CENChemPics January winner Susan Schmidt.
In preparation for a demo, she aimed to make a large crystal of Rochelle salt to show the compound’s piezoelectricity in action: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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Wishing you an amazing weekend 🥰
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A view through a hollow aluminum tube floating on water. The background and foreground are blue.
This may, at first glance, look like a perfect blue bubble floating atop smooth water, but what you see is actually a centimeters-long unsinkable aluminum tube. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/Ch...
#CENChemPics by University of Rochester photo/J. Adam Fenster
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Blue laser light illuminates a luge sled blade and several blocks.
The US Olympic luge team worked with Dow to create 3D models of the sleds using laser scanning: cen.acs.org/materials/Ch...
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Finally classics of lithiation after a very long time 😇
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When sprinkles are submerged in liquid nitrogen, they rapidly cool to −196 °C, causing the trapped moisture and air inside them to contract and the sugar structure to become brittle. cen.acs.org/education/Ch...
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The leftovers of Susan Schmidt’s experiment look compelling, which is good news because her work focuses on capturing people’s attention. cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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A micrograph of a porous material with lots of round holes.
Star’s Tech is developing a suite of ways to use the troublesome starfish as a feedstock for specialty chemicals and materials, and one of the most advanced uses is as a de-icer. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/Ch...
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An elephant figure on a grainy gray background.
What do you do when you know how to work with biological materials and are experts in 3D printing at small resolutions? Create this 10 µm long elephant inside a living cell, of course. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/3-...
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A beaker with dozens of tiny, fused, nearly rectangular clear crystals coating the bottom.
The leftovers of Susan Schmidt’s experiment look compelling, which is good news because her work focuses on capturing people’s attention. Schmidt designs science demonstrations for undergraduates studying physics and chemistry. Read more: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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A woman in a lab coat uses a rotary tool to tighten one of a series of about 35 rods going around the perimeter of a stack of metal plates that make up an electrochemical stack. The hands and tools of several other people can be seen tightening other rods.
This array of bolts looks heavy duty, but the impressive part is happening below it. Andrea Klenotiz and other scientists at Lectrolyst were preparing this electrochemical reactor—the stack of plates under the rods—for a demonstration: cen.acs.org/environment/...
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A micrograph of hairlike and geometric crystals colored in yellow and red.
Congrats to #CENChemPics December winner Prodipta Samadder! Read more about these fluorescent microcrystals: cen.acs.org/synthesis/Ch...
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Each dot in these glowing green patterns is a molecule resting on a gold surface. Specifically, each is a phenyl-TOTA, a molecule with a phenyl ring sticking out of a base shaped like an upside-down bowl. Read more: cen.acs.org/physical-che...
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The past couple of weekends have been full of holiday light celebrations in many parts of the world. This warm-tinted microscope image from #CENChemPics contributor Prodipta Samadder shows fluorescent microcrystals formed from organic boron molecules. cen.acs.org/synthesis/Ch...
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Thin, bright-yellow crystals arranged in a branching pattern, viewed through a microscope
These intricately branched crystals almost look like nerve cells to Yogesh Kumar Maurya. But though they aren’t alive, the yellow crystals are an important building block in the nanographene-based rotoxane that Maurya was working to synthesize: cen.acs.org/materials/el...
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Hear us out: This is a Christmas tree, but it’s also a step toward 3D-printed moon igloos. cen.acs.org/materials/3-...
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A micrograph of a finned, spiraling structure.
Parul Yadav captured this image with an electron microscope looking at light-driven copolymerization of gelatin methacrylate and zwitterionic molecules. Yadav is investigating such systems as supports for tissue engineering. Read more: cen.acs.org/materials/Ch...
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A scanning electron microscope image of polymer clusters, one of which resembles a skull.
And the 2025 Chemistry in Pictures champion is . . .
After a long month of unlikely match-ups and tens of thousands of your votes, Gustavo Porrata Caraballo has been chosen as the Chemistry in Pictures contest winner for 2025: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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A micrograph of hairlike and geometric crystals colored in yellow and red.
The past couple of weekends have been full of holiday light celebrations in many parts of the world. This warm-tinted microscope image from #CENChemPics contributor Prodipta Samadder shows fluorescent microcrystals formed from organic boron molecules. cen.acs.org/synthesis/Ch...
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anisotropic nanocrystals—a fancy name for nanoparticles that grow faster in some directions than others.
A scanning electron microscope image of polymer clusters, one of which resembles a skull.
Our Lone Pair matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the nanocrystals of Felipe Quiroga-Suavita facing off against Gustavo P. Caraballo's scanning electron microscope. Get your final vote in for your favorite ChemPic of the year! cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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A scanning electron microscope image of polymer clusters, one of which resembles a skull.
anisotropic nanocrystals—a fancy name for nanoparticles that grow faster in some directions than others.
Our Lone Pair matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the scanning electron microscope of Gustavo P. Caraballo facing off against Felipe Quiroga-Suavita's nanocrystals. Get your final vote in for your favorite ChemPic of the year! cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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Your votes have been counted and the final matchup is now live as part of The Lone Pair! Only one #CENChemPics will emerge victorious! Vote for your favorite chemistry image of 2025
Your votes have been counted and the final matchup is now live as part of The Lone Pair! Only one #CENChemPics will emerge victorious! Vote for your favorite chemistry image of 2025: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
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In a scanning tunneling microscope image, hundreds of glowing dots organize themselves in hexagons and wavy diagonal lines. The diagonal lines have somewhat regular spacing between each other.
Each dot in these glowing green patterns is a molecule resting on a gold surface. Specifically, each is a phenyl-functionalized trioxatriangulenium, a molecule with a phenyl ring sticking out of a base shaped like an upside-down bowl: cen.acs.org/physical-che...
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