MIT electrical engineering grad student Seth Coe-Sullivan won Nikon’s 2005 Small World Photomicrography Competition with this shot. The image depicts quantum dot nanocrystals that Coe-Sullivan was studying for possible use in light bulbs and cell phone. Each “coffee bean” shape is approximately the diameter of a human hair. From MIT’s press release:
“The natural world is what created the art, much more than I did. I was just there to observe it,” said Coe-Sullivan.
