When art and science collide , beautiful things happen . That ’s the case with the Wim Noorduin ’s nanosculptures . For the past few year , this Harvard materials scientisthas been using basic chemistryto create beautiful forms so small , you need an electron microscope to see them .
These delicate flower - comparable forms are modest than the width of a human hairsbreadth , but that does n’t make them any less beautiful . The ease of the process Noorduin takes to make them actually makes themeven more telling . He simply mixes chemical substance in a beaker to produce lilliputian colorful crystals that grow into a kind of shapes , though he ’s developed way to cook the procedure .
“ Over the years , I ’ve been grow thousands of these samples , and I ’ve tried many ways to pile structures on top of each other , and to sculpture them while they ’re growing , ” Noorduintold The Creators Project recently . “ I notice , of course , that with all these experiments , some things aesthetically simply operate better than others . That ’s how I started to develop a sort of style in which most of the construction started to wait like bloom . ”
It ’s kind of a bummer they ’re so humble , actually . Electron microscopes are laborious to come by ! Then again , size of it does n’t matter . [ CNET , Creators Project ]
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