Polymer Crystals or Stained Glass Window?

Year: 
2019
Ranking: 
Entrant
Artist: 
Eleni Papananou (Post-Doc)
Department: 
MRL

Description

Polymer crystals when seen under a Polarized Optical Microscope give beautiful colors and the characteristic Maltese Cross.

The colors are usually uniform across one film, but when I stumbled upon this 4-5 month old film and looked at it, it had completely transformed due to secondary crystallization! New colors covering a wide range of the spectrum along with the Maltese Cross made it look more like a 15th century stained glass window in a Gothic church.

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