The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council photo competition allows researchers and doctoral students to share their work in pictures, with winners from categories ranging from eureka to weird and wonderful. Award winning images of science in action. Thanks to Opus for the heads up.
A rotating jet of a viscoelastic liquid, which won first place in the weird and wonderful category
Photograph: Professor Omar Matar/EPSRC/PA
Looks like siloxane.
If you haven’t seen this guys’ stuff it’s in the same vein.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/01/heavy-metals-alberto-seveso/
(PS to above: I have a high speed camera and had the idea of doing motion analysis HD video of water and oil. It turned out to be remarkably boring at 1200fps. If you slow the process down slightly it looks perfectly normal, only slow. If you slow it down a lot it looks boring. And it makes a mess)
Wow, those are stunning, thanks for the link, Marcus! I’ll have to post about those. I have a thing for photographing water, I have tons of shots of water in various states and forms. I love art that involves liquids. Smoke too, for that matter.