Beautiful, complex fractal-like nanocrystals selfassembling inside a Transmission Electron Microscope. Filmed live by electron microscopist and nanoresearcher Lionel Cervera Gontard from Center of Electron Nanoscopy at Technical University of Denmark.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Labs to Silicon Valley, researchers are manipulating particles at the atomic level, ushering in potential cures for cancer, clothes that don't stain, and solar panels as thick as a sheet of paper. http://www.kqed.org/quest