October 28, 2009 –
The micrograph should be viewed through 3D glasses for best effect.
Matthew Sullivan, chemical engineering and materials science graduate student researcher, received the Roland B. Snow Award for microscopy this week at the Materials and Technology Society Annual Conference and Exhibition in Pittsburgh, Penn.
The Snow Award honors the best micrograph in the Ceramographic Competition, an annual exhibit to promote the use of microscopy and microanalysis as tools in the scientific investigation of ceramic materials. The competition has numerous categories and the Snow Award goes to the overall best-of-show.
Sullivan’s micrograph, which was made in the Carl Zeiss Center for Electron Microscopy at CALIT2, should be viewed through 3D glasses, using cyan for the left eye and red for the right eye. (For those who don’t own a pair, the 3Dglasses are available in the Zeiss Center.)
The winning micrograph depicts manganese cobalt chrome oxide, a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) interconnect coating. Sullivan deposited manganese and cobalt on stainless steel, using an electron beam, then heat-treated the sample to grow the crystals. The final representation was achieved by merging together two images that were taken at slightly different angles.
It will be published in a future issue of the Bulletin of the American Ceramic Society.
