Late last spring, a doctoral student worked late into the night. As she doodled, her chemistry thesis took on a life of its own, transforming into a comic book.

去年春末，一位博士生常常忙到深夜。经过她的妙笔，她的化学论文以自己的方式“活了起来，变成了一本连环漫画。

Veronica Berns, 28, was working on her Ph. D. in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin -Madison. Berns said she long struggled to explain her work to her parents and friends. The self-described comic book fan said she began drafting her thesis on quasicrystals — a subset of crystals that diverge from the usual structural characteristics of crystals. Berns quickly concluded that she would be best able to describe the oddball compounds with illustrations.

28岁的维罗妮卡·伯恩斯是威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校的一名化学博士生。伯恩斯说，她曾长期苦于向父母和朋友解释自己的专业。当她开始起草关于准晶体的论文时，自称漫画迷的她很快意识到她可以通过绘图的方式更好的讲解这些古怪的化合物。准晶体是一种从普通晶体分化出来的子晶体。

"They're not very well-polished illustrations. That's on purpose," Berns said. "I wanted it to be like I'm explaining on the back of an envelope."

“它们不是画功一流的图画，而是功能性更强。伯恩斯说，“我一度想让它起到这样的作用——就像我在信封的背面画图向人们解释化学一样。

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