Nickel(II) tetrasulfophthalocyanine is an organic semiconductor compound that is being studied for use in both advanced sensors and solar cell technology.

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This was a special order where the molecule is formed in 925 silver wire with the nickel atom as an 18K gold ball and the nitrogen atoms as oxidized silver balls.

If you want a molecule that I don't have in my webshop – email me at info@valegarddesign.se. It could be a perfect and somewhat unusual gift.

Silver jewelry showing the three dimensional structure of GLP-1.

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GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) is a hormone produced in the small intestine after meals. It increases insulin secretion and promotes satiety.

Drugs that mimic GLP-1 have been shown to be effective in both type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish physician and artist. He is the father of modern neuroscience. He combined his scientific research with his artistic side and created amazing drawings of the human brain and other nervous tissues. In 1906, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his claim that the brain is composed of individual neuron cells. Cajal's theories form the basis of neuroscience today.

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I received a request from Madrid to design a jewelry based on one of Cajal's drawings. After receiving permission from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Natural Sciences Museum) in Madrid, I have now created a Santiago Ramón y Cajal pyramidala cell. It is a piece of jewelry that I make as an open edition (OE). Each piece comes with a certificate of authenticity. The picture shows my first neuron piece of jewelry, OE-001. I have delivered four more to Spain.

2025 silver jewelry inspired by the Nobel Prizes in Physiology/Medicine, Physics and Chemistry: the protein foxp3, quantum mechanical tunneling and Robsons tetrahedron.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”.

They are awarded for their work on the FOXP3 gene (which codes for the protein foxp3), regulatory T cells and the regulation of the immune system.

Nobel prize jewelry shows the three dimensional structure of foxp3 in silver 925. A small protein, just over 80 amino acids, with four small helices and a beta hairpin.

The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”

Quantum mechanics allows a particle to move straight through a barrier, using a process called tunnelling. Tunneling can be likened to throwing a ball against a wall and instead of bouncing, it goes through, a quantum mechanical process. If you pass current through a particular superconductor, the current can jump to the next conductor with quantum mechanical help.

This year's Nobel Prize jewel has 'captured' the tunneling step, when the ball goes through the wall. (A silver ball in a hole in the silver plate.)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks”.

The Nobel Prize laureates have created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow.

One of the Nobel laureates, Richard Robson, was inspired by the structure of diamond, where each carbon atom is connected to four other carbon atoms in a pyramid-like shape. His goal was to build a similar structure. Instead of carbon, he used copper ions and a four-armed molecule with a nitrile at the end. Nitrile is a chemical group that is attracted to copper ions. When the four-armed molecule, 4′,4″,4‴,4⁗-tetracyanotetraphenylmethane, was mixed with copper, a regular and very airy crystal formed. 

This year's Nobel Prize jewel shows the three-dimensional structure of 4′,4″,4‴,4⁗-tetracyanotetraphenylmethane in silver wire with the copper ions as silver spheres.

Foxp3, Tunneling and Robson's tetrahedron.

You will find this years silver jewelry inspired by the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine, Physics and Chemistry at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm.

October 19, 2025

Designmarknad, UKK, Uppsala

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October 25, 2025

Charity Art Expo, Sergels torg 3, Lilla Studion, Kulturhuset, Stockholm

Previous silver jewelry inspired by the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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MicroRNA, Nobel Prize 2024.

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Katalin Karikó with pseudouridine, Nobel Prize 2023.

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Artemisinin from the plant Artemisia annua. Nobel Prize 2015.

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The jewelry shows the three-dimensional structure of the extracellular domain of the 'brake protein', CTLA-4. Nobel Prize 2018.

Mark in your calendar: October 25 at Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Sergels Torg 3, Lilla Studion.

I will be there exhibiting my science jewelry along with nine other artists.

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Welcome!!!

Nerve cell in silver 925.

Nerve cells form projections, neurites, which develop and branch for communication with other nerve cells.