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Reproducing a Monet Painting With Aluminum Nanostructures

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-small-or-go-home dept.

MTorrice writes: Plasmonic printing is a recently developed method to create color images using different shapes and sizes of gold or silver nanostructures. It relies on the oscillations of electrons in the metal surfaces and can produce images with a resolution 100 times that of a common desktop printer. Now researchers have expanded the color palette of the technique using tiny aluminum-capped nanopillars. Each pixel consists of four nanopillars; tuning the diameters and arrangement of the pillars produced a palette of more than 300 different colors. Using these pixels, the researchers created a microscale reproduction of Claude Monet's "Impression, Sunrise."

27 comments

  1. Intel Inside? by complete+loony · · Score: 2

    So new chips could waste die space to include a holographic company logo?

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    1. Re:Intel Inside? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Subtle trademarks in the circuit design can be *very* useful for proving that the design is stolen.

  2. Bitcoin Paper Wallets by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This tech would be awesome for printing miniature Bitcoin paper wallets.

  3. Amazing by ArcadeMan · · Score: 2

    I click on the "enlarge" button and I get images of the exact same size!

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    1. Re:Amazing by Charliemopps · · Score: 2, Funny

      I click on the "enlarge" button and I get images of the exact same size!

      The pictures are nano-scale duh.

  4. Tommy James / Billy Idol by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 2

    I love you Monet Monet...

  5. And it costs more than the original by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    At least for the next decade or so...

  6. And you thought ink was already expensive! by disposable60 · · Score: 1

    Ink already costs more per fluid ounce than gold, now they wanna add actual GOLD!

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    1. Re:And you thought ink was already expensive! by viperidaenz · · Score: 1

      No, now they're replacing gold with aluminium.

    2. Re:And you thought ink was already expensive! by Hal_Porter · · Score: 1

      We don't use 'aluminum' or 'aluminium' anymore. They new Unified English® spelling is 'aluminininium'.

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    3. Re:And you thought ink was already expensive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Logically that should reduce the price...

    4. Re:And you thought ink was already expensive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      We don't use 'aluminum' or 'aluminium' anymore. They new Unified English® spelling is 'aluminininium'.

      You must mean 'aluminuninunium'.

    5. Re:And you thought ink was already expensive! by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, it takes money to make Monet.

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  7. Perfect size by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I have a small condo so this will fit perfectly between my micro painting of Emily Carr and Tom Thomson.

  8. Colors don't fade! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It says the colors won't fade, but then says the nanostructures last for just a few months, an improvement over lasting a week!

    What good is colors that don't fade if it completely disappears?

  9. Monet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    He was the original clod.

    1. Re:Monet... by disposable60 · · Score: 1

      But very sensitive.

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  10. Applications by davide+marney · · Score: 1

    That sample image is only 50 microns wide, barely as wide across as a human hair. That's one small security tag, my friend.

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    1. Re:Applications by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ~250 microns

  11. Same size. by leuk_he · · Score: 1

    That is called a exact reproduction. ;)

  12. Good thing the copyright has expired by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · · Score: 1

    Good thing the copyright has expired. Maybe that is why Monet isn't creating any more work.

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    1. Re:Good thing the copyright has expired by ComputerInsultant · · Score: 1

      The copyright may have expired, but "The researchers adapted the original image with permission from Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, France/Giraudon/Bridgeman Images."

      So they completely ignored the fact that the art is public domain. Argh.

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    2. Re:Good thing the copyright has expired by cryptizard · · Score: 1

      The original painting is in the public domain, but the museum's photograph of the painting may not be. In the US it would, but I gather that in other countries (and this work wasn't done in the US) the situation can be different.

  13. Clearly 'shopped by Muad'Dave · · Score: 1

    Oh, come on! That pic is clearly 'shopped. You can tell by the shading of the nano-pillars!

    ~joke

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  14. microscale impressionism by mr_mischief · · Score: 1

    At some point shrinking impressionist art pretty much just makes it.. art, right?

  15. Not exactly durable... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "By avoiding dyes or pigments, this printing technology produces images that do not fade"
    But
    "The aluminum pixels are stable for more than seven months, unlike the previous silver pixels, which oxidized and degraded within a week."