Submissions open for 2018 ANFF-VIC image of the year
Sara Ghavamian (Gholam Nejad) (2017 Winner)
The small round object trapped in between the spikes of the feature resembles a goalkeeper holding a ball under their arm. My surfaces are designed to investigate the antibacterial properties of patterned substrates and are imaged at MCN using NOVA FEG-SEM tool. The original mould was fabricated using photolithography but the visualized surfaces are PDMS (half-way replicated) or OrmoComp (fully replicated).
Stella Aslanoglou and Qianqian Shi (2017 Shortlist)
The gold nanocube plasmene sits on top of Si nanowires. This is an image that combines a "soft" plasmene and "hard" Si nanowires. When they meet with each other, both of them maintained their own characteristics: the Si nanowires provide supporting while the ultra-thin plasmene keeps flat on the tips without any structure collapse and shows a semi-transparent feature.
This image was taken using MCN's FIB-SEM.
Kate Fox and Alastair Stacey (2017 Shortlist)
Diamond coated 3D printed titanium cubes, coated using the MCN PCD diamond CVD equipment (credit K Fox and A Stacey). These cubes are part of a submitted article entitled "Polycrystalline Diamond Coating of Additively Manufactured Titanium for Biomedical Applications".
Sara Ghavamian (Gholam Nejad) (2017 Winner)
The small round object trapped in between the spikes of the feature resembles a goalkeeper holding a ball under their arm. My surfaces are designed to investigate the antibacterial properties of patterned substrates and are imaged at MCN using NOVA FEG-SEM tool. The original mould was fabricated using photolithography but the visualized surfaces are PDMS (half-way replicated) or OrmoComp (fully replicated).
Stella Aslanoglou and Qianqian Shi (2017 Shortlist)
The gold nanocube plasmene sits on top of Si nanowires. This is an image that combines a "soft" plasmene and "hard" Si nanowires. When they meet with each other, both of them maintained their own characteristics: the Si nanowires provide supporting while the ultra-thin plasmene keeps flat on the tips without any structure collapse and shows a semi-transparent feature.
This image was taken using MCN's FIB-SEM.
Kate Fox and Alastair Stacey (2017 Shortlist)
Diamond coated 3D printed titanium cubes, coated using the MCN PCD diamond CVD equipment (credit K Fox and A Stacey). These cubes are part of a submitted article entitled "Polycrystalline Diamond Coating of Additively Manufactured Titanium for Biomedical Applications".
The 2018 ANFF-VIC Image of the Year Competition is now open for submissions.
The winner will receive a $200 cash prize as well as recognition through our media channels and featured placement on Nanomelbourne.com.
The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2019, the winner will be announced in March 2019.
Submissions are now open – send your high-resolution images of work conducted in 2018 with the help of ANFF-VIC in jpg, png or tif format to mcn-images@nanomelbourne.com. Please include a short description of the image, where it was taken and any relevant publications.
These images will be printed in a large poster format, so only print-quality images will be considered.
This year’s competition will again be decided by the public. Following an internal shortlisting process we will upload the images to our twitter page, @Nanomelb, and the image with the most likes and shares will win.
All users are eligible and there is no limit to the number of times that you can enter, as long as the work has involved the use of ANFF-VIC fabrication or characterisation capabilities.
Get submitting or view last years winner here…
ANFF-VIC is also running its “Publication of the Year” competition for a second year – make sure you’re acknowledging the node correctly in all papers in order to be considered. Please use the following in the acknowledgment section of any ANFF-VIC enabled papers:
“This work was performed in part at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) in the Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF).”
