Beautiful screen chemistry

‘Chemistry is about a lot of glassware. But it has reflection and refraction and it’s difficult to see what’s actually going on inside. The idea is to make the glassware invisible and show the surprising beauty of simple chemical reactions close up,’ says Yan Liang. His latest videos in the Envisioning chemistry series certainly achieve this aim of making simply chemistry beautiful and feature microscopy, high-speed and infrared footage of chemical transformations ranging from precipitation and crystal growth to metal displacement and combustion.