Dan Warr (PhD student, Costantini group) is this year's winner of our Art and Photography Competition with his entry "Molecular triangles" - well done!

Dan's own description of his beautiful STM image is as follows:

"Concentric triangles formed by an amino acid.

Molecules of phenylalanine were evaporated onto a gold surface and imaged by scanning tunneling microscopy. The image is 100nm x 100nm and individual molecules can be seen as individual dots. Symmetries are observed everywhere in nature. This is a great example of how the atomic symmetry of the underlying surface can template the supramolecular assembly of small molecules."

Molecular triangles by Dan Warr

The runners-up in the competition were Haytham Hussein and Anne Hollingsworth - their entries are also shown below.

Blue Moon by Anne Hollingsworth

Chemistry is innovation by Haytham Hussein

All of this year's winning and runner-up entries will eventually be displayed around the Department of Chemistry.