Art Gallery at the interface of Nano and Bio

Our research is driven by scientific questions and the scientific results are what counts in the first place. Perhaps unexpectedly, our findings often yield images that are truly beautiful and amazing from an artistic point of view. For this reason we are proud to present our Art Gallery with artistic masterpieces that result from our scientific research.

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A mixed colony of red and green fluorescent Eschericia coli bacteria on an agar surface. (Peter Galajda)

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Transmission electron microscopy image of a biomimetic nuclear pore complex. (Stefan Kowalczyk)

Colonies of green fluorescent E. coli cells on an agar surface. The   outer membrane is labeled with a red fluorescent dye.

Colonies of green fluorescent E. coli cells with red-labelled membrane dye on an agar surface. (Peter Galajda)

Colonies of green fluorescent E. coli cells with red-labelled membrane dye on an agar surface. (Peter Galajda)

Colonies of green fluorescent E. coli cells with red-labelled membrane dye on an agar surface. (Peter Galajda)

Colonies of green fluorescent E. coli cells with red-labelled membrane dye on an agar surface. (Peter Galajda)

Colonies of green fluorescent E. coli cells with red-labelled membrane dye on an agar surface. (Peter Galajda)

Evaporating Droplet on Reflective Wafers (Gergory F. Schneider)

Evaporating Droplet on Reflective Wafers (Gregory F. Schneider)

Evaporating Droplet on Reflective Wafers (Gergory F. Schneider)

Evaporating Droplet on Reflective Wafers (Gregory F. Schneider)

Nanochannel for bacteria

Nanochannel for bacteria (Fabai Wu)

Crumpling of 20nm thick free standing Silicon nitride membrane (Gautam Soni)

Crumpling of 20nm thick free standing Silicon nitride membrane (Gautam Soni)

Nanopore which has been hand-pained with PDMS (Michiel van den Hout)

Nanopore which has been hand-pained with PDMS (Michiel van den Hout)

Green and red-labelled E. coli bacteria (Peter Galajda)

Green and red-labelled E. coli bacteria (Peter Galajda)

Wedging on beads (Gregory Schneider)

Wedging on beads (Gregory Schneider)

Evaporating liquid on membrans (Gregory Schneider)

Evaporating liquid on a membrane (Gregory Schneider)

Etched silicon nitride membrane with surrounding silicon support (Stefan Kowalczyk)

Etched silicon nitride membrane with surrounding silicon support (Stefan Kowalczyk)

Light reflections off water at a silicon surface (Stefan Kowalczyk)

Light reflections of water at a silicon surface (Stefan Kowalczyk)

Bacterial flow pattern on a chip (Fabai Wu)

Bacterial flow pattern on a chip (Fabai Wu)

SiN surface after APTES treatment (Tomas Magalhaes)

SiN surface after APTES treatment (Tomas Magalhaes)

SiN surface after APTES treatment (Tomas Magalhaes)

SiN surface after APTES treatment (Tomas Magalhaes)