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| Posted: April 15, 2007 |
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New sculpture has a nano look
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(Nanowerk News) There is nothing nano about a new piece of artwork at the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering on Fuller Road.
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Inside the rotunda at NanoFab 300 North, the central building at the college's Albany NanoTech complex, hangs a massive new sculpture by University at Albany art professor Edward Mayer titled "Bloculus Prime." It measures 18 feet by 9 feet by 15 feet.
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Mayer, chairman of the sculpture program at UAlbany, created it from tomato cages. A description on a nearby plaque notes that the structure "moves in and out of chaos and order as one views it from different vantage points."
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The real cool thing is that there is actually a link to nanotechnology. The patterns of the sculpture "bear a curious similarity" to the so-called Kikuchi diffraction pattern seen through a scanning electron microscope, which is "used to predict macroscopic behavior based on nanoscale parameters."
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Read the full article from the Times Union here.
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