Beautiful SEM pictures

I had the chance to help my friend Sylvie to get scanning electron microscope pictures of the MRI contrast agent she synthesizes, and we collected gorgeous data thanks to my colleague Farhad.
He told me that he had TONS of failed experiments that still yielded great pictures…
We should start a journal of the failed experiments… art+science mag !:)

Islands...

SEM picture that looks like an aerial view of Dog Island (Anguilla)…

I guess there is some wabi-sabi in science…

sem_the_beach

sem_the_fern

sem_like_popcorn

sem_the_rag

sem_sand

Here’s a link to other SEM pictures of failures :  The Art of Failure – 2014 (IEEE spectrum)