The annual Best SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) Image Contest was held January 30.The contest is sponsored by the Molecular and Nano Archaeology Laboratory, a joint venture between the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA.
| First Place MNA Award 2015 “Gold Dendrites on a Carbon Nanotube Yarn” Kevin Xin, materials science and engineering Large-scale gold dendrites grown on a carbon nanotube yarn substrate. Kevin Xin, Materials Science and Engineering |
| Second Place MNA Award 2015 “Dendritic Niobium Oxide” Chun Han Matt Lai, materials science and engineering Niobium oxide dendrites was observed after annealing Nb2O5/ graphene composite at 800°C under Ar. |
| Third Place Award MNA 2015 “Christmas Tree” Diane Yu, materials science and engineering Zinc electrodeposition dendrites. |
| First Place FEI Tony Award 2015 Rhenium-Coated Molybdenum Dendrites Christopher Matthes, mechanical and aerospace engineering The surface of dendritic Rhenium-coated Molybdenum. |
| Second Place FEI Tony Award 2015 “Nickel Grass” Chao Ma, mechanical and aerospace engineering Electrodeposite nickel nanowires. The nanowires look bundles of grass. |
| Third Place FEI Tony Award 2015 “Inverse opal structure of tin/sol gel hybrid” Kumpei Kobayashi, materials science and engineering The inverse opal structure of tin-sol gel hybrid material made by polystyrene colloidal crystal templating process. |
| Participants of the ceremony (from left to right): Sergey Prikhodko, Director of Electron Microscopy Core; Tony Carpenter, Sales Rep., FEI; Henri Chen, nominee; Tait Mclouth, nominee; Edward Chang, nominee; Kevin Xin, 1st Place, MNA Award; Kumpei Kobayashi, 3rd Place, FEI Award; Mat Lai, 3rd Place, MNA Award; Danielle Casillas, nominee. |