At the Materials Research Society December 2008 and April 2009 meetings, the popular “Science as Art” competition yielded some amazing images from the fields of nanotechnology. Some of prize winners include:

1. The Nano Teddy Bear which shows zinc oxide nanostructures deposited on an indium oxide coated glass substrate using an electrochemical deposition technique.

2. Carbon NanoEden

3. Nano Spaghetti and Meatballs where the ‘spaghetti’ is a collection of electrodeposited gold nanowires and the ‘meatballs’ are silicon nanoparticles.

4. Nanoflower made of crystalline wurtzite indium nitride made using a molecular bean epitaxy process.

5. The Nano-Grip composed of thick epoxy crystals self-assembled onto a 2.5 micron polystyrene sphere.

6. Modern Stonehenge consists of silicon nanopillars created using gallium implantation and deep reactive-ion etching.