Micrographs Competition

Micrographs Competition :

The image competition is a unique opportunity to share with the community the beautiful worlds revealed by your kind of microscopy technique. As the emphasis is on the visually appealing rather than on the scientific aspect of the images, micrographs submitted to the competition can be colorized and manipulated. You are encouraged to be free and playful!

The winning micrograph will be posted on the ISM website and, if found suitable, may be used as a decoration for the next ISM meeting.

ISM will provide a hard copy of the image and present it during the meeting. You are free to take the hard copy after the meeting!

By applying to the competition all rights for using the images are given to ISM according to the ISM website terms of use, including the right to use the image on ISM’s site as part of its design (credit will be given).

The 2022 Micrographs :

1			PRIDE ROCK Noy Fabri Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israle Institute of Technology, Haifa Secondary electron SEM micrograph acquired using a Zeiss Ultra-Plus FEG-SEM at 6kV, showing anorthite exuded from alumina grain boundaries after extended thermal annealing at 1600°C in air.
2			ANORTHITE VIOLETS Noy Fabri Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israle Institute of Technology, Haifa Secondary electron SEM micrograph acquired using a Zeiss Ultra-Plus FEG-SEM at 6kV, showing anorthite platelets “blossom” (exuded) from alumina grain boundaries after sintering followed by an extended thermal anneal at 1600°C in air.
3			ALUMINA BEACH Noy Fabri Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israle Institute of Technology, Haifa Secondary electron SEM micrograph acquired using a Zeiss Ultra-Plus FEG-SEM at 1.5kV, showing the free surface meeting a fracture surface of sintered polycrystalline alumina.
4			ROOTS IN THE STARS Alessia Perilli Department of Plant Science, Tel Aviv University The image shows a composition of an Arabidopsis thaliana root embedded in agar gel containing fluorescent microbeads (1 um diameter); this is a snapshot of a time series taken with a confocal microscope with a 20x magnification. The aim is to measure the deformation of the medium caused by the root growth by measuring the displacements of the microbeads.
5			SEA ANEMONE AMBROSIA CONFERTIFLORA STAMINATE FLORET PISTILLODIUM! Ilana Shtein1,2 and Einat Zelinger3 1The Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel University 2 Eastern R&D Center, Milken Campus, Ariel 3 The Interdepartmental Equipment Unit, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot Ambrosia confertiflora is currently probably the most notorious invasive weed in Israel, causing extensive damages to agricultural crops and causing allergy and asthma. It’s wind pollinated, with male flowers possessing a special organ- pistillodium- which extends and pushes out the pollen with its broom-like trichomes.
6			SILK SUNSET Ori Brookstein Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot silk protein (fibroin) fluid inside a silkworm's gland before transforming into a solid fiber. The protein forms both bulk solution and spherical structures, which are important for its functionality. The image was taken with a scanning electron microscope at cryo conditions (-120C) after water sublimation (-90C). The sample for cryo-SEM was prepared using high-pressure freezing followed by freeze-fracture techniques to preserve the native sample conditions and morphology.
7			ALUMINA CAVE Yathreb Shalabi Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion – Israle Institute of Technology, Haifa Secondary electron SEM micrograph acquired using a Zeiss Ultra-Plus FEG-SEM at 1.5kV of a pore which intersects a polished surface of Cr-doped alumina.
8			ELECTROCHEMISTRY IVY Olga Krichevski and Tamara Brider Ariel University Cupper Nanowires deposited into anodic Aluminium Oxide template. Cross section. MAIA 3 TESCAN, BSE, 7KV, scale bar 5um.