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July 10, 2018

Chemistry graduate student Cassie Gates' beautiful images of flasks in Professor Sharon Burgmayer's lab were featured in Chemical & Engineering News.

collage of photos from chemistry flasks
Images Courtesy of Cassie Gates

From the feature:

After evaporating the solvent from reaction flasks, Cassie Gates found these designs that looked like the clouds on gaseous planets. The swirling designs are the result of stirring bars whipping solvent around as it bubbled up the flasks’ sides while under vacuum. 

Read more on the C&EN website.