Integrative Graduate
Education and
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IGERT Story

Science as art: beautiful world under the microscope

Tetraaniline in Full Bloom

Link:

http://cnsiblog.blogspot.com/2013/0 8/science-as-art-beautiful-world-un der.html

Projects:

Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA

Institution:

University of California at Los Angeles

Category:

News Clippings

Description

This image, titled “Tetraaniline in Full Bloom,” won first place in the Materials Research Society’s “Science as Art” competition this spring for Yue Wang, a member of Ric Kaner’s lab and former IGERT fellow. In addition to being beautiful, this molecule has potential for sensors and organic supercapacitors because of its shape and electrical conductivity. The “flower” in the upper right is actually aggregated sheets of doped aniline oligomers and the black and white leaves are flexible sheets.