As Agilent was building its own image library around its Atomic Force Microscopes, I had the opportunity to check out a variety of websites that also presented imagery. While the engineer in me is certainly wowed by the cool factor that surrounds these images and their place in nanotechnology research, I am also struck by how artful they really are. This observation was recently reinforced when I received in the mail the quarterly alumni magazine from my undergrad alma mater, the University of Dayton. As I flipped the magazine open, I was immediately struck by an article about UD’s Nanoscale Science and Technology Laboratory (the NEST Lab). While it was a fairly short article about the lab itself, the 2 pages of images generated by the lab was what really catches one’s attention. The article indicated that the university’s art students were working with scientists in the NEST lab to “uncover the hidden worlds of repeating patterns and incongruous forms”. Pretty cool intersection of art and science I think! Check out their image library. My interest now peaked, I began searching the web for things like ‘nanotechnology artwork’ which leads you to cool sites like the Nanotechnology Art Gallery at the Nanotechnology Now web site and many more. Agilent’s image library focuses on images captured by AFM products and while it is a fairly recent addition to our website we think it will continue to grow.

If you have found a particularly cool repository of nanotechnology imagery, whether it is your own or someone else’s, please share them!