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Picture by Isabel Köhl
Crystals of iodophenol in n-pentane as the solvent.
To crystallize the iodophenol n-pentane was put on the reaction mixture and the next morning you get this wonderful looking crystals.

Picture by Felix Kortmann
Crystals of triphenylphosphine oxide.

Picture by Jacob Cox
The luminescence of titanium dioxide by 254 nm wavelength for the oxidation ofwater for hydrogen yield.

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Picture by Vaishali Agte
A variety of green shades were obtained using edible plant extracts (in test tubes No. 3, 4 and 5) and change of pH which are useful as food colors.

Picture by Christos Pantazidis
Everybody loves chemistry, even chemistry itself. This shape was found in a mixture of KI with CuSO₄•5H₂O in an aqueous solution.

Picture by Christos Pantazidis
If this piece of metal could speak, it would say “ouch”. This metal opener was left in an acidic environment and the result was rather beautiful.

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Picture by Christos Pantazidis
Bubbles are always beautiful! Addition of sodium carbonate to vinegar. While forming sodium acetate, carbon dioxide leaves the solution in the form of lovely bubbles.

Picture by Sven Adrian

“White” rose colored using blue and red ink.

Picture by Honghai Liu

This beautiful structure of foam was found while cleaning chemical apparatus.

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Picture by Christos Pantazidis

Colors! Different colors, textures, and odors! What more could a chemist possibly ask for?

Picture by Honghai Liu

The fun of chemical construction – we can play with it like Lego blocks.

   Picture by Yu Feng

   Chromatic chemical life.

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Picture by Girish Gupta

Drying of benzene using sodium wire
– A wonderful view!

Picture by Claudia Reidlinger

Making slime!

Picture by Vinod Kumar

Without TLC an organic chemist is blind.

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Picture by Kamalneet Kaur
Initiation of crystallization of 4,6-dimethyl-2-chloropyrimidine, a versatile substrate in heterocyclic synthesis.

Picture by Krupal Jethava

The Beauty of Crystallization. The next day I said, Wow! The synthesized compound had formed artistic crystals around the oval-shaped magnetic stirrer bar. Amazing!

Picture by Mareen Müller

Colloidal Concourse.

Scanning electron microscope image of silica-core/poly(n-isopropylacrylamid)-shell particles. The surface structuring was obtained by particle transfer using micro contact printing stamps with circular depressions. Afterwards the substrate was exposed to oxygen plasma to remove the soft polymer shell.

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Picture by Jeff Terry and Daniel Velazquez

Thin Film Synthesis with Pulsed Laser Deposition.

Two lasers are used to deposit thin films on substrates. A CO₂ laser impinges on the substrate on the left causing the substrate to emit blackbody radiation. A 266 nm pulse hits a target and creates the visible plume on the right. Chemistry under ultra-high vacuum conditions.

Picture by Sandra Gomes Rodrigues

Filtration of a school day. The beauty of the impurities.

Picture by Kate Prescott

BZ Oscillating Reaction.

A photo of the color transition shown in the BZ oscillating reaction. The color changes between colourless and a light
brown are due to intermediate products formed in each of the reaction steps. In this particular experiment, sulfuric acid, malonic acid, potassium bromate, and manganese sulfate react together to produce bromine, carbon dioxide, and water by either a radical or non-radical process depending on the concentration of certain intermediate products.

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Picture by Tina Michetti

SLIME!

Picture by Volker Gatterdam

Light-triggered protein assembly.

Shown is a modified microscope image of a glass surface functionalized with photoactivatable (“caged”) glutathione. During light irradiation inactive glutathione is photoconverted into its biological relevant form, which can be recognized by the red fluorescent labeled protein glutathione-S-transferase (GST). Total width of this image is 100 µm.

Picture by Cornelia Flender

Pressure is on!
A beautifully random arrangement of pressure regulators.

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Picture by Martin M. Hiller and Raphael Stolina

670.8 nm

Water drops falling down on lithium dendrites. The rest is chemistry.

Picture by Konstantina Kipreou

Chemistry rocks!

Picture by Konstantina Kipreou

A little professor is already on duty.

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Picture by Konstantina Kipreou
Fluorescence in the microcosm …

Picture by Konstantina Kipreou
Starting the experiment in the microcosm …

A ΄΄little΄΄ help is always welcome during the experiment.

Picture by Haresh Ajani

Crystallization of Tramadol hydrochloride

The molecular weight of tramadol hydrochloride is 299.8. It is a white, bitter, crystalline and odorless powder. It is readily soluble in water and ethanol and has a pKa of 9.41. The n-octanol/water log partition coefficient (logP) is 1.35 at pH 7.

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Picture by Robert Pullar
Hexagonal micro fried egg

SEM image of hexagonal ferrite crystal, showing growth on hexagonal edges, and a new layer beginning to grow by seemingly liquid phase growth on the surface.

Picture by Robert Pullar

The ferrite Badlands – stacking of crystal layers

High contrast SEM image of the many layers of growth seen in a hexagonal ferrite crystal, like a landscape of eroded mountain features, but on a micron scale.

Picture by Marisa Rocha

Approx

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Picture by Marisa Rocha

Liquid Crystal

Picture by Marisa Rocha

Quinquephenyl Crystals

Picture by Marisa Rocha

Sapphire Window

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Picture by Marisa Rocha

Sublimation

Picture by Ben Boeser

Beam me up!
A 1064 nm light from a Nd:YAG laser doubled to 532 nm (green) by passing through a BBO crystal. Orange beamblockers were installed for safety.

Picture by Nils Böckenfeld
Sol-gel synthesis of sodium vanadium phoshate (You see a V⁴⁺ to V³⁺ transition on the fly)

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Picture by Denise Schneider
Sauron’s Eye or lonesome funnel?

Picture by Denise Schneider

The Brownian motion in connection with a redox reaction

A piece of sodium in water together with an indicator.

Picture by Denise Schneider

Fascinating Fluorescence!

Shot during an experimental lecture.

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Picture by Minxi Rao
Crystal Violet and Biofilms

Silicibacter grown in 12-well plates; biofilms stained by crystal violet.

Picture by Sabrina Schott
Surface Tension

Platinum ring and thermometer of a Du-Noüy-Ring-Tensiometer, which is used to measure the surface tension of liquids.

Picture by Peter Heinrichs
Beauty of Bismuth

A small Bismuth crystal we crystallized in lab.

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Picture by Marisa Sanders
Quantum Tunneling

Students at The College of New Jersey painted a Quantum Tunnel in the basement of the chemistry building during the college’s summer research program.

Picture by Konstantina Dodi Iokasti
Cis & Trans

As you can see, we are making beautiful complexes at the laboratory!

Picture by Konstantina Dodi Iokasti

Beautifully Dangerous

Hg is very dangerous but look at it – eventually, everything has it’s magic!

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Picture by Konstantina Dodi Iokasti
Blue like the ocean
A blue complex

Picture by Konstantina Dodi Iokasti

Bunsen Burner
It is a common piece of laboratory equipment that produces a single open gas flame, which is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion. Oh, what would we have done without you?

Picture by Konstantina Dodi Iokasti

Analytical Chemistry

That’s why we love Analytical Chemistry. Orange little things bubbling around!