Photo Chemistry

  • 20230714lnp20-flower
    English

    Children’s experiment for adults

    2024-02-21T10:50:00Z

    It is a popular experiment to introduce children to science: staining a rose with food colouring. An American student did it with fluorescent dye.

  • Oerwoud-kolf
    English

    Jungle in a flask

    2024-02-12T14:43:00Z

    With a little imagination, you can see a complete jungle in this picture, with large ferns and grass on the ground. 

  • Mesospheric Ghost
    English

    Ghost of Mesosphere Present

    2023-12-19T12:23:00Z

    Stratospheric discharges are not only beautiful, they are also the subject of research into what makes them so colourful.

  • original picture-straight
    English

    Blue bead parade

    2023-12-13T12:35:00Z

    The audience award of the ChemistryViews 2023 Photo Competition went to this atmospheric image of blue calcium alginate ‘beads’. 

  • ChemViews_winnaar
    English

    Picture perfect tubes

    2023-11-20T12:22:00Z

    Maciej Majdecki won first prize in the ChemistryViews Photo Competition 2023 with this collection of beautifully coloured NMR tubes.

  • Molecular Jellyfish
    English

    Molecular jellyfish

    2023-06-23T09:48:00Z

    Serendipity is a thread running through many extraordinary discoveries in the history of chemistry. These ‘molecular jellyfish’ are no exception.

  • Iron_Lace
    English

    Iron embroidery

    2023-05-03T11:51:00Z

    Source: Ludovic Troian-Gautier, C&EN Nature offers the most beautiful crystal structures. But beauty is certainly not absent from the lab, as shown by these iron(II) photosensitisers.

  • Nylon single fiber
    English

    Threads of beauty

    2023-04-14T09:55:00Z

    Analytical polymer chemistry can be quite colourful, as shown in this X-ray diffraction pattern of a nylon fibre.

  • Low-Res_Mimulus_Horizontal_23_black.jpg
    English

    About the birds and the genes

    2023-02-24T08:44:00Z

    Chinese researchers show which gene in monkeyflowers has been altered so that the flowers no longer produce yellow pigment.

  • IMG_20220624_140303
    English

    Synthetic painting

    2023-02-22T10:25:00Z

    Organic chemistry is not always exciting when it comes to using colour: white powders, colourless liquids. But it can also produce beautiful pictures.

  • braininvivo_klein
    English

    What does a brain ‘sound’ like?

    2023-01-13T09:14:00Z

    We know ultrasounds as grainy grey pictures, but with the latest imaging techniques, they can look like this.

  • InBeeld_12_CCL2_FJD305_composite
    English

    Traitor macrophages light up

    2022-12-06T10:01:00Z

    Floris van Dalen, PhD student at RadboudUMC, took this image of mouse macrophages acting as a model for TAMs.

  • Astrocytes
    English

    Enlightening nerves

    2022-10-18T14:23:00Z

    Most biological cells are not very special to see unless you pass some fluorescent compounds through them. These brain cells also have an unusual shape.

  • 10023-chempics-bubble
    English

    Soap bubble solar cell

    2022-10-07T07:48:00Z

    You can see solar panels appearing on more and more rooftops. But Saudi scientists printed a solar cell on a bubble.

  • 20220526lnp20-brulee
    English

    Chem brûlée

    2022-07-19T11:35:00Z

    Most mixtures that chemists create in the lab may not always look special or appetising. But every once in a while, you would be tempted to take a bite of your product.

  • goblet cells_online
    English

    Light at the end of the tunnel

    2022-03-31T12:57:00Z

    Everyone’s bowels are different. One person’s gut reacts violently to certain foods or medications, while another’s doesn’t suffer at all.

  • 3DforPress_unlabelled_EB
    English

    ‘Highest resolution ever’

    2022-01-06T13:05:00Z

    With AFM, researchers at UCL get close to the reality of the surface of a bacterium.