Photo competition 2022 winners
Many thanks to all the entrants in this year's Chemistry Department photo competition. We received a wide array of excellent images, and after careful deliberation we're pleased to announce the winners below. Congratulations!
General Chemistry
First place
Tristan Johnston-Wood
This photo combines experimental chemistry, computational chemistry and nature. The photo was taken in the Duarte Computational Chemistry office where the code in the background is from a Python package being developed to calculate free energies. Computational chemistry is often aesthetically uninteresting, so I have combined plants from the office, tiny glassware and flowers alongside Python code to add some colour to the standard computational chemist's view.
Runner-up
Xuelei Pan
The fancy colourful light and shadow on soap bubbles. The photo was taken in my kitchen. It shows an image of the light texture of a bubble, which is an imitation of wall paper of the iPhone.
Science Up-Close
First place
Yujia Zhang
The doughnut-shape structure is composed of fluorescently-labeled ovarian cancer cells. Each bright spot here represents one cell that has a diameter of several micrometers. All cells were embedded in UV-crosslinked silk hydrogel—a natural biocompatible macromolecular protein network—that finally formed this ecliptic structure using hydrogel droplet printing techniques.
Runner-up
Hannah Hayler
A freshly cleaved piece of muscovite mica showing facets of different thicknesses, indicated by the multiple coloured domains. The large blue domain indicates a thin facet of 2–3 microns. We use muscovite mica as a substrate to study liquids under confinement because it is atomically smooth.
Teaching and Learning
First place
Beth Watkins
Blackboard notes from a lecture in the PTCL, Hilary Term 2022.
Runner-up
Louis Summerley
Hydrogen discharge lamp shot through a diffraction grating in the Chemistry Teaching Laboratory 1st year lab.
Highly commended
A selection of highly commended entries across all three categories by (clockwise from top-left) Hannah Hayler, Lily Phillips, Astrid Southam, Xuelei Pan, Lillian Lie, Emeric Claudiu Ardelean, Lillian Lie, Iago Grobas, and Kelly Britton.
