Carrying high-resolution cameras in our collective pockets has spawned a new age of lab photography. Witness Chemistry
in Pictures, the official American Chemical Society Tumblr site. There
you’ll find mazelike porphyrin crystals (below), glowing TLC plates, and
ultralight aerogels poised atop fragile flowers.
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| Credit: Anna Slater | Chemical & Engineering News Tumblr |
Want to dive even deeper into the laboratory? Kristof
Hegedus has you covered: his aptly-named site Photos
from an Organic Chemistry Laboratory brings forth reaction gifs, failed
black tars, and icy fractals of crystalline intermediates. Perhaps your
interests lean towards chemical education – the picture blog for you is Picture
It… Based out of the University of Bristol, and freely available for
re-use through Creative Commons, the authors overlay well-posed plants, foods,
and common substances alongside their constituent molecules.
Finally, for the
effete artiste, we present Beautiful
Chemistry. A joint venture of Tsinghua University Press and the
University of Science and Technology in China, this site has it all: Priestly’s
apparatus, HD videos of crystal growth, and animated DNA nanostructures. A true
treat for the chemically and artistically inclined.
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