Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom: UW engineers create 2025’s Most Stunning microscope image at the MAF Posted on November 6, 2025 (November 6, 2025) by Corin A Shelley-Reuss November 5, 2025 | Nano-Engineered Systems Institute “Foam in Bloom”, by UW mechanical engineering graduate students Santhosh Sridhar (Microcellular Plastics Lab), Ankush Nandi (Vashisth Research Lab), and Shaunak Deshpande (Meza Research Group) was named the Most Stunning image in the 2025 Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom image contest hosted by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI). Sites from across the NNCI contributed stunning, unique, and whimsical images of the micro and nanoscale for the 2025 image contest. Read More