Making the Desertlands
A.J. Hart and R. Wartena, 2005
Framed color-enhanced SEM image of carbon nanotubes structures on a silicon substrate, approx. 23" x 17.5"
Finalist in Material Research Society's Science as Art competition at the Spring 2005 meeting in San Francisco, CA
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for this piece has been to create the whole thing. What you see in front
of you is the end result of a process where a world was grown from carbon
nanotubes, its image was captured and then modified only by colorizing
and blurring areas, and finally presented in a handmade frame.
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This image depicts structures of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes grown from patterns of metal catalyst on a silicon substrate. The tallest structures shown are approximately 1 millimeter high, and consist of individual nanotubes approximately 10 nm in diameter. The structures were grown in a C2H4/H4/Ar atmosphere at 750 °C, from a catalyst film of Fe/Al2O3. The images were initially taken using a Philips XL30 FEG-ESEM, and modified using Adobe Photoshop. |
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Original SEM image |
Enhanced
SEM image |
