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The Power of Communication Through Art Jewellery
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The presentation illustrates the results of an interdisciplinary practice between the main author as art jeweller and engineering with materials science. The talk will be supported by a series of examples of surface marking of titanium by laser for the production of jewellery objects and the effects caused by heat delivered to the titanium substrate. The research demonstrates how laser controlled oxide growth on titanium can be used as an artistic tool by producing precisely defined colours accord- ing to different parameter settings. The overriding success of this work, however, is the pathway created from art practice into engineering research, taking advantage of methodologies from both cultures, resulting in an improved communication and understanding between these extreme disciplines. The paper is also concerned with the distance created between artist and technology, the importance of crossing boundaries and taking risks beyond normal personal practice in order to join in the investig- ation of global current debates, for example climate change. Through the collaboration with scientists and engineers and the production of art jewellery the author aims to bring new knowledge of science research and art practice to wider audiences.
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In this article, I will argue that art should be part of the materials science and engineering curriculum. At first glance, the idea might seem nonsensical given the already crowded syllabus. It also might seem a radical change to a subject that has established itself as one of the most vibrant and infulential in the pantheon of modern science. But, I would argue that the reason for its success - its interdisciplinary nature - is also a potential threat to its survival as a subject. If it is to survive, continue to attract the best students, and not disappear into a sea of different interdisciplinary specialisms, materials science must find its lost soul. I will make the case that including the arts into the curriculum will help with this search and I will describe a pilot project to test this, which I carried out at King's College London.
Surface oxidation of titanium was performed by cw-Nd:YAG laser (λ=1.064 μm) treatment in air. Different colors of the samples were obtained by varying the beam scan velocity. At the optical microscope, the samples showed a pattern of two-color bands. Compositional analyses performed by grazing incidence X-ray diffractometry, Raman spectroscopy, and secondary ion mass spectrometry revealed the formation of a titanium oxide coating that consisted of a mixture of polycrystalline oxide phases (Ti2O, TiO, Ti2O3 and TiO2). The refractive index and the thickness of the transparent oxide surface layer, as well as the chromaticity coordinates, were calculated from the reflectance spectrum of the samples. In order to elucidate the origin of the samples color, the properties of the laser-oxidized samples were compared with those of anodized ones with similar colors. The comparison allowed to conclude that the color was formed in all cases by light interference phenomena within the transparent oxide surface layer, which in the case of laser treated samples was only the thin outer zone of the titanium oxidized layer.
It is becoming clear that cells can respond not only to micometric scale topography, but may also to nanometric scale topography. The production of reproducibly sized nanometric features has relied heavily on expensive and time-consuming methods of manufacture, such as electron beam lithography. Polymer demixing of polystyrene and polybromostyrene has been found to produce nanoscale islands of reproducible height, and the islands have been previously shown to effect cell spreading compared to planar surfaces. This study observes morphological, cytoskeletal, and molecular changes in fibroblast reaction to 13-nm-high islands. The methods employed include scanning electron microscopy, fluorescent microscopy, and 1718 gene microarray. The results show that the cells respond to the islands by broad gene up-regulation, notably in the areas of cell signaling, proliferation, cytoskeleton, and production of extracellular matrix proteins. Microscopical results provide confirmation of the microarray findings.
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