Image of the year: The 2013 winning image from CSIROS' Florian Lapiere - "Polyhipe" is an SEM of a highly porous polymer beads from High Internal Phase Emulsion (HIPE)
Image of the year: A 2013 runner up - "Cross" from Babak Nasr. A SEM of a cross shape created using DRIE
Image of the year: A 2013 runner up - "Don't break my nano heart" from Yi Chen. A self assembled nanoheart cut from plasmene
Image of the year: A 2013 runner up - Alien Landscape from MCN staff member Lachlan Hyde. Surface of a diamond film analysed with AFM
Image of the year: A 2013 runner up - "Gold bird" from Yongwei Wang. A SEM of a gold bird made by wet chemistry
Image of the year: The 2012 winning image from Swinburne's Gediminas Seniutinas. "Nanowinter" is an RIE black silicon wafer which has been sputtered with gold for use as a SERS substrate
Image of the year: A 2012 runner up - "cell growth in 3D porous hydrogel" from Jing fu and Peggy Chan
Image of the year: A 2012 runner up from Yuanhui Zheng. A SEM of a commercial substrate