un: the-rx: Researchers hope to find better methods for creating nanomaterials based on intricate cell-wall patterns assembled by diatoms, such as Thalassiosira pseudonana. Credit: Nils Kröger Source: Nanomaterials Based on Micro-Algae Patterns, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Georgia Institute of Technology Diatoms, one of the tiny beauties that you can admire (some of them) with a simple microscope and have been around since the early Jurassic. I love them. :-O

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Researchers hope to find better methods for creating nanomaterials based on intricate cell-wall patterns assembled by diatoms, such as Thalassiosira pseudonana.

Credit: Nils Kröger

Source: Nanomaterials Based on Micro-Algae Patterns, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Georgia Institute of Technology

Diatoms, one of the tiny beauties that you can admire (some of them) with a simple microscope and have been around since the early Jurassic. I love them.

:-O