Science on the SPOT: Color By Nano - The Art of Kate Nichols

15/09/2010 9 min

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Episode Synopsis

Artist Kate Nichols longed to paint with the iridescent colors of butterfly wings, but no such pigments existed. So she became the first artist-in-residence at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to synthesize nanoparticles and incorporate them into her artwork.