Art Gallery

2024

First Place
Creatures that Connect the Coast
Second Place
Kaleidoscopic Sugar
Third Place
entirely reciprocal
Special Honorable Mention
Best Caption & People's Choice - The Urchin’s Test: More Than A Grade
Special Honorable Mention
Best Data Visualization - Four Loop Graphs
Honorable Mention
Guiding Quantum Light
Honorable Mention
The Landscape of Leaf Level Spectroscopy
Honorable Mention
The face of magnetism in graphene
Honorable Mention
NESTosis
Honorable Mention
When Microscopic Life Imitates Art
Honorable Mention
Remains. Coral I Killed in Mo'orea.
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DNA STAMP
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All Tangled Up
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Human heart Organoid
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Beautiful, but deadly: Portraits of coral disease
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Emphasis
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Treading The Silk Thread to The Sea
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The Tree of Development
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So, what's for dinner?
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Anemones in Climate Chromatics
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Shimmers of Light
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Picosecond Lasers Awaiting Alignment
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Neural Loom
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A twist for tunable electronic and thermal transport properties of nanodevices
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Tension in Motion
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Perfecting Imperfections for Single Photon Emission
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8 Coexisting Condensed DNA Phases
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United Cesium of America (exfoliated CsV3Sb5)
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Bioengineering
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Information Superhighways in the Fruit Fly Brain

2023

First Place
Hidden Blueprint of Chromosome
Second Place
A Galactic Symphony: Cold Clouds in Fiery Winds
Third Place
The Hotspot
People's Choice
Life Finds a Way
Special Honorable Mention
Best Caption Award - Hungry Hungry Macrophages
Special Honorable Mention
Best Data Visualization Award - DIGITAL COLONIZATION - A Decentralized Social Network for the Social Nomads
Honorable Mention
The black gold of the golden state, who are you made of?
Honorable Mention
Mesmerizing Medusa
Honorable Mention
Transformations of Hyperbolic Space
Honorable Mention
Permalloy you've never seen before
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Beautiful Setbacks #026
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Unphased
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Shining light into our elements
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JuliaSetFractal
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Everything that glitters is not cold
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Dance of the Qutrits
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Sensorium: The Voice of the World Ocean
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Soft Science
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Trap-Assisted Auger-Meitner Recombination
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¿HUH?
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Coexistence with the SARS-CoV-2 virus
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Polymers in Nanoscale
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Mathematical Microbia
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Virtual Campus
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Deep Sea-crets
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A Sweet Exploration of the Fermi Surface
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Strain Soliton Networks in Bismuth Thin Films
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The Climber
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Anemone Dysbiosis
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The Ripples of a Disturbance
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Didymos, Brace for Impact!
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Ring of Fire
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Stars in Fourier sky

2022

First Place
Lights, Camera, Action
Second Place
Tensellation
Third Place
Growing Patterns in a Digital Petri Dish
People's Choice
Little worm, big impact
Special Honorable Mention
Best Data Visualization Award - A Wormhole Lullaby
Special Honorable Mention
Best Caption Award - Local Alien Apartments
Honorable Mention
Cosmogramma
Honorable Mention
El Ojo de Fuego
Honorable Mention
Gravity Sensation: A Heavy Feeling
Honorable Mention
When ovary simulates exotic flower bud!
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Let's Breathe
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Garden of Rings
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On & Off
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Moonglow
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Musical Instrument using Quantum Physics
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The Importance of Crediting Black Creators on TikTok
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A Turtle under the (Meta)surface
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Hidden Gems at Low Tide
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Illuminating Cell Mechanics
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What the Eye Can See
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Massive Star Explosion
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A Tale of Magnets and Materials
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DNA Seeding More than Biology
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Scattering Sunset in k-space
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Peptoid Microflower
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4-Dimensional Cellular Smokestacks
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Diamond Dawning
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Crystal Wallflower
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Event Horizon Empire
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Fluorescent Macrophages
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Ceramic fetus
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Augmented Reality Environment through Eye
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Electronic Reflections

2020

First Place
Illuminating a Black Hole
Second Place
Electric Avenues
Third Place
Keep Your Friends Close But Your Anemones Closer
People's Choice
Everybody needs a support system
Special Honorable Mention
Best Caption Award - Same Bricks—Different Houses
Honorable Mention
Micron Mountains
Honorable Mention
It's in the Eyes
Honorable Mention
An Arduous Story
Honorable Mention
The Expansive Landscape
Honorable Mention
Limelight
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Ghost of Experiments Past
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Quantum Entanglement
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When the Volcano Erupts: A Moment Forever Frozen in Time
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Retinal Organoid Butterfly
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Instrument in flight
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Sunrise to seafloor
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Green Chemistry for the Globe
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Imaginal Discs of Drosophila Embryo
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Disordered Symmetry of Aerospace Additive Manufacturing
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A Robot's View of Goleta Beach
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Shining Light on Cancer
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A vision in purple
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The Secret to Being Clean
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It's the Little Things
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The Ground of Motion
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Make your own Bible
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Not just Skimming the Surface
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Simulating the growth of gallium oxide
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NanoWorlds
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Silver Snowflakes
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Eclipsed
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Meta-lion
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I'm a real microstructure!
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A funny SEM picture
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The Multidimensional Ocean
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Scattering Crystalline Inevitable
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Sound Crystals
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Illumination: Enhancing Starch Visualization in Archaeological Residues
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Solar Spaghetti
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Growing Eggs
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Frigid Inferno
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Urchins Rising
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The Duality of Worm

2019

First Place
Algebra, Geometry and Topology: What's the Difference?
Second Place
Everyday I Have the Oxide Blues
Third Place
3D Printed Nickel Superalloy
People's Choice
Crystal Crush
Special Honorable Mention
Deforming Symmetry "Pi-ece with the most Pi"
Honorable Mention
Water Lilies
Honorable Mention
The Fire of Creation
Honorable Mention
Glimpse of the Eternal
Honorable Mention
Lamellar Sky
Honorable Mention
Swirls by Motion
Honorable Mention
Fire and Ice
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Polymer Crystals or Stained Glass Window?
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Life Through Chaos
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GaNo Carnation
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Palm from Silver
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Deep space on a silicon chip
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Canis Lupus Victoria Amanita
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Dark Side of the Lab
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Processed
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Wasteland Hope
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And then the world melted away
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GaN in Hand
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Pastcells
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A Search in Synaptic Space
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Shattered Glass
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On the cis trans interconversion
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Star of David (Shield of David) pattern
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Gas Giant
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Shot Hole Horror
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Cryptic Creatures
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Galactic Melt Inclusions
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Pushing the Boundary
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The California Sea Firefly
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Communication can stabilize people's emotions
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Heart Shape Heat Flow
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The Source
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Dive into the Deep
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Net of Nuclei
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Lead-iodide Wheat Field
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Spiraling into the Abyss
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Private Investigation: Calculating a Cobweb
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Totum revolutum
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Photoresist Cave
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Symmetry of materials
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Binary Fibonacci
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A mirror out of electrons
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Intertidal Mollusks of Santa Barbara
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The Amazing Experiment
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Resilience Among the Reefs
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The Trapezium Star Cluster as imaged by the MKID Exoplanet Camera
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Sea of GaNquility
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The Crab Nebula
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GaN Planet
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BECs: An Origin Story
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Lightning Arc of IEEE Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coil
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What a Radar System Sees
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Beautiful patterns of water flow
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Rebel Cell
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Critical Nucleus
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A Supernova Diptych
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The making of a gut

2018

First Place
Coniatus splendidulus
Second Place
Atomic Ravine
Third Place
Forever Together
People's Choice
Hot and Steamy
Honorable Mention
Coastal Balance
Honorable Mention
Representations of the Braid Groups (video)
Honorable Mention
Marangoni Flow
Honorable Mention
Poles Apart
Honorable Mention
Swirls Upon Swirls
Honorable Mention
The World of a Cell
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Within 4D
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Fireworks
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Stained Glass Peridotites
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Immunology in Blue
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Dendrobates and Shed
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Sunny Elegance
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GaN You Feel the Love Tonight
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Promethean
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Fish Eggs
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Visualizing the Electronic Structure of Methanol: From Order to Disorder
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Electric Blue
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Motus Caeli
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Universe in Brain
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Inside the Turmoil
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Subaqueous Constellations of Aggregative Inclusion Bodies
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Crystalline Cityscape
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Stars of Life
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X-Ray Vision
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Ferns on a Nickel Foil
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Forest's Edge
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Multitasking: Sort, Shuffle, Breathe and Host
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The Hopf Map
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Sinusoidal Analysis of a Melody
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Voronoi Tissue
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Pipeline
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Not Everyone Gets Along in the Sandbox
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Recursive Forest
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Mixed Vision
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More than Meets the Eye
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Ruthenium Red, Ruthenium Brown
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Too Small to Image
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Rise of Chaos
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On Printed Wings
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A Turbulent Knot in the Cosmic Web
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Cracking the Cells
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Waterborne Autonomous Low-Light Electro-stereo-videography
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Rings of Neptune
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Under a Deadline
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Laser Lens Array
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Never a Mundane Supernova in the Sky (video)
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The Micro TIE Fighter
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Vascular Flower
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Confined Cracks
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Worminescence
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There and Back Again
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The Art of Traffic
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Fantastic Microbes and Where to Find Them

2017

First Place
Neuronas o árboles?
Second Place
Crack Range
Third Place
Climate Odyssey
People's Choice
A Sea of Lipid Flowers
Honorable Mention
Galaxsea
Honorable Mention
Current Reflections
Honorable Mention
Hyperbolic Streaks
Honorable Mention
Morphology of phase coexistence in a lung surfactant monolayer
Honorable Mention
Symmetry in Chaos
Honorable Mention
Warhol's Cells
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Yasur Volcano, Tanna Island, Vanuatu
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Earthworm poop from the air
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A Shark's Scale
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Unintended Undulations
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µChannel Islands
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Fluid Modes
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On Color
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I heart neuroscience
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Pathways in Flooded Plains
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Wild ZAPDOS appeared!
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Crystal Canyon
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Tangled and Twisted
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Undulator
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Zen of a Deadman's Foot
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Unspoken
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Polymer Bike
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Plasma Enhanced Chemical Kaleidoscope
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Schlieren Imaging of Viscous Fingering and Buoyancy Driven Convection
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Researcher Bubble Map
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Organic Crystallites
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Patterning on the micron scale
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The Garnet Scream
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The Secret Life of Rocks
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SB Museum of Art Reception
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Stoner's Rabbit
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1D Ising Model and the Phase Transition
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Life's Super Highway
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The Microfluidic Blood-Brain Barrier
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A Window into the Ultracold
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Nanoctopus
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Vision Capture
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Edvard Munch's Scream
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Water on Venus?
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Material injuries
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Crack spheres in mussel threads
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Melodic Matlab
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Flower of Retina
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A sensor or a churro?
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Working with what you've got
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Psychedelic Crystals
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Spiraling Out of Control
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In Living Color
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How do animals detect food texture?
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Glowing Glass
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The Breezeway
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Yin Yang Luna
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Mechanical twins

2016

First Place
Van Gogh's Ocean
Second Place
Dynamically Tunable Color of Cells in Squid Skin (selected by the editors as the cover image for my research article in JBC...
Third Place
luː.ki.dus
Third Place
Selective Swelling
People's Choice
Rio Collageno
Honorable Mention
Nanoscale Current Map
Honorable Mention
Finding the Region
Honorable Mention
Ocean Kelp on a Chip
Honorable Mention
Accident
Honorable Mention
Typhoon Inside a Drop
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Winnie the Pooh Shaped Polymeric Nanoparticle
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Organic Noise
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Microcraters
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Kaleidoscopic Shots
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Heat Seeking Missiles
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A Fluorescent Retina
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Masquerade Ball
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Cells Aflame: Proteins in the Spotlight
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Don't Miss the View Outside of Your Work
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Aurora Adamanteus
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Broken Like Shattered Glass
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Colliding with Vibrations
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Fungus Among Us
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Radialism
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Heart of a Wafer
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Buddha Contemplating Existence
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Foliar Topography
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Merychippus to All, and to All a Starry Night
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Caught in the Act
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Copper Coral
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Slice of Symmetry
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Patterned Polymers with Light
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Sorry for Autocorrection
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X's & O's
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Metallic Nano-landscape
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Illuminated Hedge Maze in Nanoscale
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Alien Landscape
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Line of Sight
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Ballistic Backscattering
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Water Beads

2015

First Place
Abstract Art in Nanoscale
Second Place
Designing Dirt
Third Place
Bone Splitting
People's Choice
Lipid Domains 2: Invasion of the Lipid Domains
Special Honorable Mention
Ocean Foam
Honorable Mention
The Badlands
Honorable Mention
Phyto Moon
Honorable Mention
Supernova Explosion
Honorable Mention
The Exodus
Honorable Mention
Voro Space
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Luminous Disorder
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At the Intersection of Two Phases
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If You Hold a Tunicate By The Tail, You Learn Things That You Cannot Learn Any Other Way
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NanoSpider
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Coil, Glowing and Humming
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Man Contemplates Butterfly
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Lunar Gold
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Ocean of Silver
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Global Life Cycle Flows of Engineered Nanoparticles
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Visualizing Information Theory
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Microlexicon
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Chemical Waste
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Underwater Avalanche
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Beam
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Convicts on the Loose
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Emerald Wings
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DNA: Life's Inner Fire
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Neurodegeneration and the Role of Amyloid Fibrils
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Coffee Fungal Forest
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Fused Cubism
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Echinothrix sea urchin
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Inception: Nanodroplets Within a Nanodroplet
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Hoarfrost
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GlowWorms
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GaN-tastic Dunes
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Light on Lights in Science
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Micro Terrain
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Harnessing the Power of Light
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Terra Hydrogel
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To be, or not to be [crystalline], that is the question
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Gallium Nitride Flowers
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Self-Assembled Symmetry

2014

First Place
On the Origin of Species
Second Place
The Starry Night
Second Place
Morphology of a semiconducting polymer
Third Place
Faces Sketched in Antimony
People's Choice
Blood Cell Flow in Embryonic Zebrafish
Honorable Mention
No traffic jams in micro-scale highways
Honorable Mention
Tiny Tin takes on The Man(ganese oxide)
Honorable Mention
Observability Gramian of a Rxn-Diffusion System
Honorable Mention
Arms and Stars
Honorable Mention
Lipid domains - boring? or artistic?
Honorable Mention
A Technicolor Approach to your Brain
Honorable Mention
Garden of Golden Flowers
Honorable Mention
Snowy Forest in Moonlight
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Octahedral rotations in GdTiO3
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Quantum Dot Laser
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Apoptosis in RPE
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Focus
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Skeleton of Fish
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Evolution of Crystal Growth
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Stop and smell the roses
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Cloud Bridge: a Data-driven Immersive AudioVisual
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Cartogram of 2012 Electoral Votes
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Scale Competition
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Aliens in Diffraction Space
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Spatial stochastic polarization in mating yeast
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Squid in the Rocks
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Pulsing Payload
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Stable Islands in a Sea of Chaos
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Nanoparticle Scattering
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The perceptive stain
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Halcyon Nights
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Visible Sound
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Absorption in SnO2
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Microspace Invaders
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Strontium Atoms "See" Blue Light
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