This image was made by the U.S. Department of Energy Genome Program's Genome Management Information System. I first saw the image in C&EN (08/18/08) and thought it did an excellent job of showing how the sugars used for bio-ethanol production relate to the bio-mass they are taken from.

This image is put out by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The thing that struck me about this image is the grey part, lost energy. The grey zone sort of sums up why high temp superconductors and better thermoelectric materials are worth trying to make.

The thermodynamic pirate flag. I made this graphic a few years ago when I was in a p chem class, I still like it a lot. It is a sort of graphical pneumonic for remembering maxwell's relations. For example If you want to construct the differential of the internal energy, dU, for a reversible closed system with only pressure and volume work, then go to the two corners opposite from the U symbol, T and P, and follow the arrows across paying attention to whether or not you are going with or against them. Then the first symbols, T and P get multiplied by the differential of whatever the arrow takes you towards, volume and entropy in this example. With or against the arrow determines the sign of the TdS or PdV terms, so in this example we have Tds and -PdV. The two terms then get added. All in all the differential of U, internal energy, is then dU = TdS - PdV. The same could be done for gibbs free energy, helmholtz free energy, or enthalpy.

These photographs show paper models that represent the crystal structure of TiO₂ (top) and the mineral brookite. Seeing these photos reminds me to be grateful for modern crystal structure visualization software. I came across them when looking through an old German journal in the Valley Library at OSU. I was looking for a different paper, but it turned out only the abstract was in English. As I was thumbing through the articles this paper stood out because it was in was one of the few entirely in English. It turns out Linus Pauling is the primary author.

This is a modified image I created so time ago. I added the letters to the structure image, which I found on the web, but I know longer know where it came from and have not been able to find it again since.