{"id":599206,"date":"2026-08-20T13:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599206\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:46:13","slug":"chemistry-in-pictures-fluorescent-side-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/599206\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry in Pictures: Fluorescent side quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-content\">Tatiana Munteanu was aiming to make light-activated <a href=\"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/topics\/materials\/molecular-machines.html\" shape=\"rect\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">molecular motors<\/a>, part of a growing class of metamaterials that can perform tiny amounts of mechanical work. Along the way, though, a synthetic intermediate caught her eye. \u201cThe beautiful pattern the droplets arranged into caught my attention, and I couldn\u2019t help but take a picture,\u201d says Munteanu, a postdoc at the Charles Sadron Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content\">Submitted by Tatiana Munteanu<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content\">Do science. Take pictures. Win money.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/collections\/chemistry-in-pictures\/submit-your-photo.html\" shape=\"rect\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enter our photo contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/collections\/chemistry-in-pictures.html\" shape=\"rect\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more Chemistry in Pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/staffDirectory\/Craig-Bettenhausen.html\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2025-craig-bettenhausen.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tatiana Munteanu was aiming to make light-activated molecular motors, part of a growing class of metamaterials that can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11426,31571,61,60,31007,253992,82,52490],"class_list":["post-599206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-blue","tag-fluorescence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-macro","tag-molecular-motors","tag-science","tag-synthesis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}