IMDEA Materials Institute recently celebrated its 13th annual imaging contest featuring images related to materials characterisation and processing, simulation and the institute’s everyday activities.
The most competitive category was “Materials Characterisation“, which this year was won by post-doctoral researcher, Dr. Monsur Islam for his image Carbon City. The winning image was of microarchitectured 3D pyrolytic carbon pillars fabricated using micro-stereolithographic resin 3D printing followed by carbonization at 900ºC in a nitrogen environment.
For the second year running, the “Simulation” category was won by Dr. Carlos Ruestes and his image MEA Spall.
The image is a molecular dynamics simulation of spallation on a NiCoCr medium entropy alloy. Void growth and amorphization is found at the intersection of planar defects.
The “Open Subject” category was won by Jorge Redondo and his image Ride the Lightning which shows Argon plasma created by 700 V high voltage in a vacuum.
Finally, the “Public Choice” award saw a tie between two images, Ready to Help by Miguel Hernández and Burcu Ozdemir and Muscle cells into the Spider–verse by Dr. Jesús Ordoño.
Ready to help shows the robotic arms for the Accelerated Materials Discovery Lab, eager to give a hand for a more efficient discovery of new polymer nanocomposite with the help of AI.
Meanwhile, Muscle cells into the Spider-verse is an SEM image in false color of smooth muscle cells (dark purple) on nitinol (yellow and light purple) fabricated by LPBF.
The image was taken with the assistance of fellow researcher, Blanca Limones.
IMDEA Materials thanks all those researchers who took part in this year’s edition of the Imaging Contest.
