Electron Micrographs 2 | Nature–Design Triennial
Channel: Cooper Hewitt
Date: 2019-07-02

James C. Weaver produces electron micrographs using a customized multi-detector scanning electron microscope, which scans the surface of a sample using a focused beam of high-energy electrons. The signals from each of the detectors are color-coded and subsequently recombined, creating a polychromatic electron micrograph. Unique to this process, color information is automatically generated during image acquisition, and not through manual post-processing. Variability in surface topography is revealed in a dazzling array of hues. The images shown here, of farmed coral specimens from the tropical Indo-Pacific, demonstrate the skeletal complexity of these incredibly diverse and ecologically important marine invertebrates.

On view in "Nature–Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial" through January 2020.

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All courtesy of James C. Weaver

James C. Weaver (American, born 1974), Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University (Boston, Massachusetts, USA, founded 2009)