Talk about creativity! We are excited to bring you another year of the Penn State Materials Visualization competition. They get better with each year, and the technology keeps growing and unfolding, or maybe it just looks that way from seeing the decreasing scale of unfolding ends at a single 500 micron square, that came in 3rd for visual appeal. See the entire gallery.

The Materials Visualization Competition (MVC11) put on by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State. MVC11 is a scientific visual and artistic competition started to highlight the quality of research in materials at Penn State.

Contest organizer, Mike Fleck, does a great job and you should definitely visit their website to see the previous competitions and learn more about the work being done there. http://www.matse.psu.edu/mvc

You can also visit the website of Dept. of Material Science and Engineering at Penn State at:

http://www.matse.psu.edu/