Stanford NNCI Image Contest Winners!

Thank you to all who entered images and voted to help select our submissions for the national contest.

Congratulations to our site winners! We are sending these images off to the national contest and will VOTE again soon!

Most Stunning: Lithium Nightmares- Xin Xu and Geoff McConohy (left). This image shows the promise and peril of a new kind of lithium battery using a ceramic solid electrolyte. Tool- FEI Helios NanoLab 600i DualBeam SEM/FIB

Most Whimsical: MicroBouldering- Maja Bachmann (top right), Who wouldn’t want to go bouldering in between these beautiful NiO crystals? Bouldering on tiny NiO crystals which were synthesized at 1400 °C. Tool- SEM/FIB: FEI Helios NanoLab 600i DualBeam

Most Unique Capability: Nanobowls- Daniel Riedel (bottom right). The nanobowls are created during the fabrication of diamond nanophotonic devices using an isotropic oxygen plasma undercutting technique. Tool- SEM: Thermo Fisher Scientific Apreo S LoVac Scanning Electron Microscope