Beauty in Failure (IMAGE)
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Award for immagination / Enillydd y Wobr Dychymg. Emmanuel Péan (College of Engineering -- SPECIFIC - Y Coleg Peirianneg) This photo, taken with an optical microscope, is the result of a perovskite sample that went wrong. This could have been caused by incorrect deposition of ethyl acetate, which should have improved the crystallisation of the perovskite layer on the substrate. The resulting picture looks like meteors (middle of the image) crashing onto a sun (left bottom corner). Those 'meteors' and their 'tails' may have been formed by the presence of impurities on the sample. In contrast, the 'sun' might have resulted from an inhomogeneous diffusion of ethyl acetate into the perovskite sublayer. Finally, the white spots in the darkest region (right top corner) seem like distant stars. To conclude, scientific research is not always fruitful, however, it is when you make mistakes that you learn the most and have the most fun.
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Emmanuel Péan, Swansea University
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