Color differences relate to size of nanostructures.
In collaboration with research scientists, Frankel also creates images for publications including Science , Nature , Cellular Biology , Langmuir , Discover , and Technology Review . A book of these images, with text by noted Harvard chemist George M. Whitesides, has been published by Chronicle Books. Also titled On the Surface of Things , this much-awaited volume includes many of the images featured in the traveling exhibition. In addition to a Guggenheim fellowship, Frankel has received grants from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. She studied at Harvard as a Loeb Fellow from 1991-92.