TITLE: Nano-Helicopter; SUBJECT: GaN Nanowires; CREDIT: Chih-Chiang Yang, National Chiao Tung University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: ARM200F TEM

TITLE: Asters; SUBJECT: image of galium arsenide nanocrystalline surface; CREDIT: Sergey Simchenko, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6490 - Microphotograph is made with scanning electronic microscope and coloured with the computer graphic tools. Magnification x1000.

TITLE: Tree; SUBJECT: Mosquito Leg; CREDIT: Sheri Neva, EAG; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 6610LV, Gold coated - imaged in SEI at 800X and stitched. Photoshoped color and liquified the top of the leg to look like a tree.

TITLE: Sweet Donut; SUBJECT: Testate Amoebae of the specie Centropyxis discoides from the lake Muyil, Quintana Ro, México.; CREDIT: Dr. Samuel Tehuacanero-Cuapa, Central Microscopy Laboratory, Institute of Physics and Institute of Geology, UNAM, México. Institut für Geosysteme und Bioindikation (IGeo), TU-Braunschweig, Germany.; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: Lower electron detector and Gentle Beam - JEOL JSM-7800F SEM

TITLE: Hydrated Lentil; SUBJECT: Cooked fully hydrated lentil showing starch microstructure; CREDIT: Scott Payne, North Dakota State University Electron Microscopy Core Facility; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6490LV; Brass cryo-puck; frozen in liquid nitrogen, fractured using a pre-cooled razor blade. Puck transferred cold to SEM in LVmode (30 Pa); allowed to sublime for 10 minutes to remove any frost. BSE shadow mode at 15 kV

TITLE: Hip to be square; SUBJECT: Psuedocolored TEM image of mouse pancreatic acinar cell. (Red = Paracrystalline inclusion body; Yellow = secretory granules; Blue = mitochondria; Green = cytoplasm filled with rough endoplasmic reticulum.) ; CREDIT: Patrick Nahirney, University of Victoria; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEM 1400 Image captured at 25,000 times magnification with a Gatan Orius SC1000 camera

TITLE: Tiny forest of metal trees; SUBJECT: Iron-Copper-Carbon growth on a Powder Metallurgy component; CREDIT: Craig Stringer, Atlas Pressed Metals; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6010Plus/LA

TITLE: Asters; SUBJECT: image of galium arsenide nanocrystalline surface; CREDIT: Sergey Simchenko, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6490 - Microphotograph is made with scanning electronic microscope and coloured with the computer graphic tools. Magnification x1000.

TITLE: A Silicon Tree 2; CREDIT: Boopathy Kombaiah, Prof. Greg Rohrer group, Carnegie Mellon University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: TEM Bright Field Image, taken using JEOL 2000EX, of a Co film-Si substrate sample synthesized through back-etching method . Etched Si forms a tree-like structure.

TITLE: cinnamon; SUBJECT: The image of the morphology of the nanoporous InP plate.; CREDIT: Yana Suchikova and Sergei Kovachev, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6490

TITLE: Spacetime Evolving Nanoparticles; SUBJECT: ZnO nanostructures formed by wet oxidation in water with zinc chloride.; CREDIT: Christian Mak Pelicano, University of the Philippines Diliman (grad student); METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-5300

TITLE: Zinc Condensation Crystals; SUBJECT: Zinc coating condensed onto piece of bare steel beneath it. ; CREDIT: Joshua Solomon, General Motors; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JSM - IT100

TITLE: Inclusion; SUBJECT: Throwing Knife; CREDIT: Sheri Neva, EAG; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 6610 LV - ductile and brittle fracture with an inclusion

TITLE: Jumping Copper; SUBJECT: Copper nanoparticles synthesized in aqueous domains of a mineral oil /surfactant/water system. The mineral oil turned out to be difficult to remove after the synthesis. The image is dominated by mineral oil domains containing copper nanoparticles, presumably also "free" nanoparticles may be observed.; CREDIT: Irene Heggstad, University of Bergen, Norway; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 1011

TITLE: Nano-Helicopter; SUBJECT: GaN Nanowires; CREDIT: Chih-Chiang Yang, National Chiao Tung University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: ARM200F TEM

TITLE: Tree; SUBJECT: Mosquito Leg; CREDIT: Sheri Neva, EAG; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 6610LV, Gold coated - imaged in SEI at 800X and stitched. Photoshoped color and liquified the top of the leg to look like a tree.

TITLE: Microtree; SUBJECT: Alumina crystallites; CREDIT: Ezra Feilden, Imperial College London; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 6010

TITLE: WALL-E; SUBJECT: Stereolithography(SLA), Gold Coated; CREDIT: TZU-LI LIU, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dr. M.Cheng group, Wayne State University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6510, microfluidic channel made by 3D printing technique

TITLE: Be positive; SUBJECT: Breast cancer research. A message to all, don't give up and fight cancer. Be positive! There is always a bright side even a cancer cell can resemble a flower; CREDIT: Shadia Al Bahlani, Sultan Qaboos University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: SEM, Cell culture

TITLE: TICK-tack; SUBJECT: Tick nymph (Arachnidae) in old SEM with W filament; CREDIT: Janez Zavašnik, Jožef Stefan Institute; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JSM-5800

TITLE: Nano Christmas Tree; SUBJECT: Electrolessly deposited platinum surface showing Christmas tree-like growth; CREDIT: Cian McKeown, Univeristy of Limerick; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JCM-5700

TITLE: A close encounter...; SUBJECT: A Close-up to the head of tse tse fly, carrier of the sleeping sickness.; CREDIT: Jose Almodovar, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 5410 LV

TITLE: Beauty of natural designs; SUBJECT: Detail of microscopy glands in the body of an insect of the genus Petrusa.; CREDIT: Jose Almodovar, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 5410 LV

TITLE: Nano Worm; SUBJECT: SEM image of etched Ti2AlC MAX phase material (resulting in stacked nanosheets of Ti2C MXene material) synthesized by selective etching of the Al atoms from Ti2AlC MAX phase. A promising material for energy storage devices such as supercapacitors and batteries.; CREDIT: Armin VahidMohammadi, Auburn University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-7000F

TITLE: Crack!; SUBJECT: Shrinkage cavity in a steel casting; CREDIT: Candan Sen Elkoca, Bulent Ecevit University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-5600

TITLE: Dislocation Core in CdTe; SUBJECT: Psuedo color STEM HAADF image of a single dislocation core in CdTe; CREDIT: Moon Kim, UT Dallas; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL ARM200

TITLE: Standing Alone; SUBJECT: Seta (bristle/hair) of a tick found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula; CREDIT: Jeffrey Brookins, Michigan Technological University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6400 @ 15kV, coated, 1300x, WD 39mm. Post-processed to add color to the micrograph.

TITLE: A view of a micro moon; SUBJECT: Wear marks on PTFE ball bearing; CREDIT: Nicholas Seaton, University of Minnesota Characterization Facility; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6700F - The goal of the work was to look at the surface roughness of several different ball bearing materials. This image reminded me of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

TITLE: Meteorite; SUBJECT: Drop of melted aluminium on the surface of heated copper wire, in a forensic case of fire investigation; CREDIT: Steven Vargas, Departamento de Ciencias Forenses, Organismo de Investigación Judicial; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JSM 6610LV

TITLE: Connecting Cilium; SUBJECT: Connecting cilium of a C57BL/6J mouse rod photoreceptor.; CREDIT: Stefanie Volland, UCLA; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL TEM (JEM1200-EX) - Transcardiac perfusion fixation with an aldehyde mix; post-fixation with tannic acid and uranyl acetate. Araldite ultrathin sections for TEM imaged at 80kv.

TITLE: Endosomal Trap; SUBJECT: Electron micrographs of a thin section of "protein based biopolymer coated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)" incubated A549 cells.; CREDIT: Goutam Pramanik Goutam, Pramanik; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 1400 - cells grown on 50 µm thick sapphire discs were cryo-fixed; Performed on ultra thin sections (70 nm) at an acceleration voltage of 80 kV.

TITLE: Iron Dew; SUBJECT: Iron droplets on an alumina substrate; CREDIT: Ezra Feilden, Imperial College London; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 6010LA. Droplets of iron form from a CVD process and solidify without wetting the alumina substrate.

TITLE: Nano Pearl; SUBJECT: SEM image of the etched particles of the 2D vanadium carbide (V2C) MXene material.; CREDIT: Armin VahidMohammadi, Auburn University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JSM-7000F

TITLE: Globular SiC; SUBJECT: Silicon Carbide VLS; CREDIT: Ezra Feilden-Irving, Imperial College London; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 6010LA. This image shows plates and lathes of the ceramic SiC grown via the VLS process, using drops of liquid silicon at high temperature.

TITLE: Meteoritic Magnetite; SUBJECT: Magnetite mineral grains with diverse morphologies that were isolated from the Orgueil meteorite. The SEM images are superimposed onto an artist rendering of the early solar system.; CREDIT: Tyrone Daulton, Washington University in St. Louis; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 7001 FLV SEM

TITLE: Carbon Curtain; SUBJECT: Suspended Glassy-Carbon Membrane; CREDIT: Ezra Feilden, Imperial College London; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 6010LA, 20 nm thick amorphous carbon membrane produced via pyrolysis of organic matter (succrose) under vacuum.

TITLE: 10 Yen Coin; SUBJECT: 10 Yen Coin; CREDIT: Patricia Belén, Núñez Luna, Daido Metal México; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL SEM 6010LV

TITLE: Bismuth overlay on copper; SUBJECT: Bismuth overlay on copper; CREDIT: Patricia Belén, Núñez Luna, Daido Metal México; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL SEM 6010LV

TITLE: Drought; SUBJECT: surface morphology of porous gallium arsenide; CREDIT: Sergey and Alexander Simchenko, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JSM-6490

TITLE: Turquoise Glade; SUBJECT: Gallium arsenide nanocrystalline surface; CREDIT: Sergey and Alexander Simchenko, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6490

TITLE: Entimus imperialis; SUBJECT: Entimus imperialis beetle’s photonic structure; CREDIT: Mouchet Sébastien, University of Exeter; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope JEOL-7500F

TITLE: 3D nanoflowers; SUBJECT: TiO2 nanoflowers synthesized via hydrothermal method; CREDIT: Neha Desai, Department of Chemistry, Shivaji University, Kolhapur; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JSM-6360A

TITLE: Al-Si based alloy; SUBJECT: Al-Si based alloy image after tensile testing; CREDIT: Sugrib Kumar Shaha, University of Waterloo; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JSM 6380LV

TITLE: Podocyte's tentacles; SUBJECT: Podocyte of a glomerulus in the rat kidney; CREDIT: Cecilia Cuellar, Universidad de Guadalajara; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JSM 6610LV. Fixed with paraformaldehyde, dehydrated with ethanol and then critical point drying, coated with gold.

TITLE: Iceberg; SUBJECT: surface morphology of gallium arsenide; CREDIT: Sergey Simchenko and Snezana Salikova, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6490

TITLE: Island; SUBJECT: catalyst on the silicon surface (111); CREDIT: Sergey Simchenko and Snezana Salikova, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6490

TITLE: Microsounds II; SUBJECT: stridulatory organ of an insect; CREDIT: Jose Almodovar, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 5410 LV. Gold coated, and pseudo color.

TITLE: Iron Peaks; SUBJECT: Iron oxide corrosion from a pipe; CREDIT: Sheri Neva, SEAL Labs / EAG; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 6610LV, 3D imaging with a 10 degree tilt eucentric

TITLE: field of flowers; SUBJECT: The image is of galium arsenide nanocrystalline surface; CREDIT: Sergey Simchenko, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6490

TITLE: Flames; SUBJECT: Hairs in the surface of an insect; CREDIT: Jose R Almodovar, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 5410 LV, Sputter Coated

TITLE: Fracture surface Analysis - Stainless Steel; SUBJECT: Fatigue (striations/beach marks), ductile (dimples) and brittle (clevage faucets) mode of failures observed in a single frame; CREDIT: Bharat Joshi, Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 5900LV, Secondary electron imaging (SEI)

TITLE: Stone flowers; SUBJECT: The image of galium arsenide nanocrystalline surface. Microphotograph is made with scanning electronic microscope.; CREDIT: Sergey Simchenko, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6490

TITLE: A Silicon Tree; SUBJECT: (not specified); CREDIT: Boopathy Kombaiah, Carnegie Mellon University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 2000EX TEM, Bright field imaging. This image was caught in a Si TEM sample that was synthesized using back-etching method; the scale bar at the bottom measures one micron.

TITLE: Sponge spicules; SUBJECT: Sponge spicules; CREDIT: Jose R Almodovar, University of Puerto Rico , Mayaguez Campus; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 5410 LV, Taxonomy purpose, Air dry and sputter coated

TITLE: Cubes; SUBJECT: nanoart; CREDIT: Jan Suchikova and Sergei Kovachovm, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6490 - Cubic indium oxide. Nanostructures have been obtained on the surface of indium phosphide.

TITLE: Sponge spicules; SUBJECT: Sponge spicules; CREDIT: Jose R Almodovar, University of Puerto Rico , Mayaguez Campus; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 5410 LV, Taxonomy purpose, Air dry and sputter coated

TITLE: Shamrock 3kx; SUBJECT: Spherical pollen on the surface of clover from Dublin - surface micro-structure 3,000x; CREDIT: Sheri Neva, SEAL Labs; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 6610LV

TITLE: coffee berry borer; SUBJECT: Details on the body of the coffee berry borer; CREDIT: José R. Almodóvar Rivera, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 5410LV

TITLE: sea urchin; SUBJECT: Details on the body of a sea urchin; CREDIT: José R. Almodóvar Rivera, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL 5410LV

TITLE: Fern; SUBJECT: The image of indium phosphide nanocrystalline surface obtained by electrochemical etching. Microphotograph is made with scanning electronic microscope and coloured with the computer graphic tools. Magnification x10000.; CREDIT: Yana Suchikova and Sergei Kovachev, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-6490

TITLE: Waterfall of Polymers on 2D Layered MXene Rock; SUBJECT: Hybrid Polymer-Ti3C2 2D material with increased capacitance for supercapacitors and lithium ion batteries.; CREDIT: Armin Vahid Mohammadi, Auburn University; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-7000F

TITLE: Hip to be square; SUBJECT: TEM image of mouse pancreatic acinar cell with square paracrystalline inclusion body. Pancreatic acinar cells contain peculiar inclusion bodies that are composed of a fine filamentous lattice. Their function is not known. ; CREDIT: Patrick Nahirney, University of Victoria; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEM 1400 Image captured at 25,000 times magnification with a Gatan Orius SC1000 camera

TITLE: Plaque Build-up in the Artery; SUBJECT: arterial plaque; CREDIT: Sahina Gazi, National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), Vasco-da-Gama, Goa, India; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM 6360LV SEM, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Sputter Coating

TITLE: Development of a Whip Spider; SUBJECT: Whip Spider Egg; CREDIT: Sahina Gazi, National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), Vasco-da-Gama, Goa, India; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM 6360LV SEM, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Sputter Coating

TITLE: Flowers on the river; SUBJECT: The image of the morphology of the textured InP plate; CREDIT: Yana Suchikova and Kovachev Sergey, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University (Ukraine); METHOD/INSTRUMENT: Electrochemical etching, Photoshop, JSM-6490

TITLE: Stone Flower; SUBJECT: Indium phosphide nanocrystalline surface obtained by electrochemical etching, forming crystalline indium oxide with a flowery structure which can be used in the manufacture of laser technology. ; CREDIT: Yana Suchikova and Kovachev Sergey, Berdyansk State Pedagogical University (Ukraine); METHOD/INSTRUMENT: Electrochemical etching, Photoshop, JSM-6490

SUBJECT: Melted surface mount capacitor containing barium titanate along with nickel, copper, and tin crystals.; CREDIT: Susan Kent, Continental AG; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-7100F FE-SEM with lower electron detector

SUBJECT: Molten surface mount capacitor. Contains barium titanate, nickel, copper, and tin.; CREDIT: Susan Kent, Continental AG; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JEOL JSM-7100F FE-SEM with lower electron detector

SUBJECT: A 3-D ceramic square lattice with a trapped flaky particle ; CREDIT: Dr. Lisa Kleiminger, Imperial College London, UK; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: JSM 6400 JEOL SEM with 10 nm Cr coating

SUBJECT: White Cast Iron; CREDIT: Sheri Neva - SEAL Labs / EAG; METHOD/INSTRUMENT: MIX SEI BEC, Nital Etched, JSM-6610 LV