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Peter Vekilov and Dimitra Georgiou

Caption: Peter Vekilov, associate professor of chemical engineering, and Dimitra Georgiou, a recent doctoral graduate in chemical engineering, work with an atomic-force microscope to capture images of insulin molecules only five nanometers in diameter.

Credit: Jeff Shaw

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