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 !:)
I guess there is some wabi-sabi in science…
Here’s a link to other SEM pictures of failures : The Art of Failure – 2014 (IEEE spectrum)