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Art on a chip: Accidental beauty at the nanoscale

By Ewen Callaway

26 July 2010

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Accidental beauty

(Image: Chris Sip and Albert Folch/University of Washington)

Gallery: Art on a chip: Accidental beauty at the nanoscale

Spend enough time with your eyes glued to a microscope and you will happen upon some beautiful structure, cell or circuit. ¾«¶«´«Ã½s who work at the nanoscale often create and manipulate their experiments to make them even more appealing to the eye. It is in this vein that the journal has created a Flickr page, . Here are a few of our favourites.

Gallery: Art on a chip: Accidental beauty at the nanoscale

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