The 2005 competition

Here you find the winning photographs of the 2005 "Images of Research" competition in the categories "Fascination of Research", "Faces of Research", the winner of the audience prize and the shortlist, a selection of the best photos submitted in 2005. To view a larger version of the photographs, please click on the picture in question.


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Klaus Tauer, Hasan Ahmad, Rona Pitschke
Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung,
Golm bei Potsdam

In pharmaceutics and medicine, the smallest particles are used as carriers for active ingredients and diagnostic substances. With the help of special procedures, tiny spheres of the common plastic polystyrene can be produced. By treating the surface with the active ingredient carrier polyethylene glycol, the little spheres become an ideal carrier material.

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