ITG Staff Darren Stevenson created the cover of the February 2010 edition of the Energy & Environmental Science Journal. The image accompanies the cover article titled "Compact monocrystalline silicon solar modules with high voltage outputs and mechanically flexible designs", authored by a collaborative team of researchers from UIUC and Northwestern University. The team includes Alfred J. Baca, Ki Jun Yu, Jianliang Xiao, Shuodao Wang, Jongseung Yoon, Jae Ha Ryu, Darren Stevenson, Ralph G. Nuzzo, Angus A. Rockett, Yonggang Huang and John A. Rogers.

The January 26, 2010 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) features a cover created by ITG staff Alex Jerez in the Visualization Laboratory. The cover image depicts a human red blood cell (RBC) that has undergone repeated severe deformation. Jerez created the cover artwork to accompany the feature story "Metabolic remodeling of the human red blood cell membrane" by YongKeun Park, Catherine A. Best, Thorsten Auth, Nir S. Gov, Samuel A. Safran, Gabriel Popescu, Subra Suresh, and Michael S. Feld. Popescu is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

ITG Staff Alex Jerez created the cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry for the February 14, 2010 edition. The cover accompanies the feature article titled "Chemistry of carbon nanotubes in biomedical applications," by Hai-Chen Wu, Xueling Chang, Lei Liu, Feng Zhao and Yuliang Zhao. The cover image depicts photodisinfection of nanoparticles on a photocatalyst in the dark, inducing a catalytic memory effect.

ITG staff Alex Jerez, Eric Shoemaker, and Zach Johnson created the cover of Advanced Functional Materials for its December 9, 2009 edition in the Visualization Laboratory. The cover artwork supports the featured paper "Thermochemical Nanolithography of Multifunctional Nanotemplates for Assembling Nano-Objects" by a collaborative team of researchers from UIUC, Georgia Institute of Technology, the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research, and the University of Heidelberg. The team includes Debin Wang, Vamsi K. Kodali, William D. Underwood II, Jonas E. Jarvholm, Takashi Okada, Simon C. Jones, Mariacristina Rumi, Zhenting Dai, William P. King, Seth R. Marder, Jennifer E. Curtis, and Elisa Riedo.

Members of the ITG staff created the cover of the December 1, 2009 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Alex Jerez and Zach Johnson of the ITG Special Projects Team collaborated with graduate student Xiaoying Guo, member of the Ralph Nuzzo UIUC research group, to create the cover image using the macro- photography system in the ITG Visualization Laboratory. The cover image represents the featured article "Two- and three-dimensional folding of thin film single-crystalline silicon for photovoltaic power applications" by UIUC researchers Xiaoying Guo, Huan Li, Bok Yeop Ahn, Eric B. Duoss, K. Jimmy Hsia, Jennifer A. Lewis, and Ralph G. Nuzzo.

The November 2009 edition of the Journal of Biophotonics features a cover created by ITG Staff Alex Jerez in the Visualization Laboratory. Jerez created the cover artwork to accompany the feature story "Imaging engineered tissues using structural and functional optical coherence tomography" by Xing Liang, Benedikt W. Graf, and Stephen A. Boppart of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The October 21, 2009 edition of the Biophysical Journal features a cover created by Olga Svinarski and ITG staff in the Visualization Laboratory. Staff members Alex Jerez and Zach Johnson collaborated with Svinarski, using 3D modeling and compositing techniques to make the final rendered image. The cover artwork accompanies a feature story titled "Common Structural Transitions in Explicit-Solvent Simulations of Villin Headpiece Folding" by Peter L. Freddolino and Klaus Schulten, both of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

ITG Staff Alex Jerez, Zach Johnson, and Eric Shoemaker collaborated to create the cover of the September 15, 2009 edition of the journal Analytical Chemistry in the Visualization Laboratory. The cover image depicts microfabricated electrodes and molecular interaction via functionalized particles and it accompanies the feature article by Sang Woo Lee of Yonsei University and Rashid Bashir of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, titled Dielectrophoretic Technique for Measurement of Chemical and Biological Interactions.

The September 25, 2009 edition of the journal Advanced Materials features a cover photograph captured by ITG staff Chas Conway in the Visualization Laboratory. Conway used the ITG's macro-photography system, including a Canon 1Ds Mark-III SLR, macro lens, and custom lighting setup. The cover imagery accompanies the feature article Ultrathin Silicon Circuits With Strain-Isolation Layers and Mesh Layouts for High-Performance Electronics on Fabric, Vinyl, Leather, and Paper by Dae-Hyeong Kim, Yun-Soung Kim, Jian Wu, Zhuangjian Liu, Jizhou Song, Hoon-Sik Kim, Yonggang Y. Huang, Keh-Chih Hwang, and John A. Rogers. The paper describes various stretchable high-performance CMOS circuit demonstrations on unconventional substrates, which may open up new and important application possibilities for electronics.

Members of the ITG staff have constructed a new system for imaging dynamic processes at ultra-high frame rates while recording the video output (up to 153,846 frames per second). The captured video can be slowed down to reveal processes that occur at speeds undetectable with the human eye. The new system is based around a Vision Research Phantom v9.1 CMOS high speed color digital camera. In addition to the camera, several new pieces of supporting equipment comprise the system, including a Zeiss Stereo Discovery V.20 microscope, a suite of wide field and macro lenses, specialized lighting equipment, a wall mounted 30-inch external preview monitor, a Mark-10 motorized test stand, and high-speed video acquisition/editing software. The camera offers the ability to capture 1016 frames per second at its native resolution of 1632 x 1200. As resolution is incrementally reduced, the camera can capture up to 153,846 frames per second. Most experiments will find optimized resolution and frame rate settings somewhere in between these ranges (1632 x 1200 resolution and 153,846 frames per second), as the camera's sensor employs CAR (continuous adjustable resolution). The system is currently available for use in the ITG Visualization Laboratory. Please see the fees page for current rates and the calendars page for making reservations. All users must complete training with ITG staff prior to their initial use of the high speed video system. Contact Darren Stevenson for training and further information.