Burning Star by Boni Adriano, University of Fribourg
Entry in category 1. ©Adriano Boni; See also bit.ly/snsf_comp_copy
Image acquired with a Tecnai Spirit Transmission Electron Microscope, 120 kV LaB6 emitter featured with BioTwin lenses, detected by means of a Veleta 2048x2048 wide angle camera. The image was taken on November 16st, 2016 at a magnification of 50000x. The subject is a polystyrene particle synthesized by means of dispersion polymerization in ethanol and dried on a 300 mesh copper grid. The sample also contains Magnetic Magnetite nanoparticles synthesized by thermal decomposition of Iron Pentacarbonyl and dispersed in the Sample.
A larger polymer nanoparticle, and a small magnetite one. Opportunely filtered and colored, a microscope image of two extremely small objects ends up to be similar to an infrared telescope image of two extremely large ones, perhaps a burning star and a small planet orbiting around it. Was that small planet born out of the star, does it owe its existence to it? Or is it something completely different, coming from far and just passing by? Will it be captured or will it escape? ¦ Image#1_48
Burning Star by Boni Adriano, University of Fribourg
Entry in category 1. ©Adriano Boni; See also bit.ly/snsf_comp_copy
Image acquired with a Tecnai Spirit Transmission Electron Microscope, 120 kV LaB6 emitter featured with BioTwin lenses, detected by means of a Veleta 2048x2048 wide angle camera. The image was taken on November 16st, 2016 at a magnification of 50000x. The subject is a polystyrene particle synthesized by means of dispersion polymerization in ethanol and dried on a 300 mesh copper grid. The sample also contains Magnetic Magnetite nanoparticles synthesized by thermal decomposition of Iron Pentacarbonyl and dispersed in the Sample.
A larger polymer nanoparticle, and a small magnetite one. Opportunely filtered and colored, a microscope image of two extremely small objects ends up to be similar to an infrared telescope image of two extremely large ones, perhaps a burning star and a small planet orbiting around it. Was that small planet born out of the star, does it owe its existence to it? Or is it something completely different, coming from far and just passing by? Will it be captured or will it escape? ¦ Image#1_48