Chemistry in Pictures

C&EN’s Chemistry in Pictures launched in early 2014 to showcase the beauty of chemistry, chemical engineering, and the allied sciences. Through visually compelling photos and images, Chemistry in Pictures provides a window into the fascinating world of scientific research and discovery.

We draw our content from several sources: scholarly journals, C&EN editors, and reader submissions. If you have just one cool photo, or if you have 100, we’d love to hear from you at CENChemPics@acs.org. It can be a photo, an SEM, a micrograph, or any other type of image as long as it is visually compelling.

The blog is curated by C&EN staff members Craig Bettenhausen, Manny Morone, and Alexandra Taylor.

Craig has worked in the Editing & Production department at C&EN since 2011. In addition to his work managing and contributing to C&EN’s Chemistry in Pictures, he works on the back end of C&EN’s print and digital editions. He also writes longer pieces for the magazine on an irregular basis, covering a range of topics including food and alcohol science, biofuels, and inorganic chemistry as well as the lighter side of chemistry featured in Newscripts. Craig has B.S. in chemistry from Harding University and an M.A. in chemistry from Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter: @craigofwaffles.

Manny leads the Editing & Production group at C&EN and—outside of editing—lends a hand in C&EN’s news coverage and workflow-related projects. He writes for C&EN’s Chemistry in Pictures photoblog and photo contest, and you can see more of his writing sporadically in the magazine’s features and its popular science Newscripts column. Manny also works with C&EN’s Speaking of Chemistry video series (cen.speakingofchemistry.org) writing scripts and hosting episodes. Follow him on Twitter: @MannyFoxMorone.

Alex has worked as a production editor at C&EN since 2016. In addition to helping to make sure the magazine gets published every week, Alex hosts webinars, edits the weekly newsletter, and is a regular contributor to Chemistry in Pictures and C&EN’s Newscripts and Career Ladder columns. She came to C&EN after a stint as a science writing intern with the American Society of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and has a master’s degree in science writing from Johns Hopkins University. Follow her on Twitter: @alexandrataylr.

C&EN Chemistry in Photography Contest

Contribute your best photos and captions, and our editors will handpick their favorites. We’ll select and publish our favorite photos in C&EN Chemistry in Pictures. Monthly winners will receive a $50 cash prize, with a Grand Prize winner that will get their photograph published in C&EN magazine and receive a photography kit to use with their mobile phone.

Submit photos to the Tumblr Submit Photo page, by email to CENChempics@acs.org or via Twitter, Facebook using the hashtag #CENChemPics.

Click here to read our rules and regulations.

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