A poppy seed from your morning bagel is about 1,000 times larger than a bacterial cell. That small cell is about 1,000 times larger than the chemical structures National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers are creating and studying to transform how we use energy. A Smaller, Stranger World’ At such a small scale, the world gets weird. Some familiar forces—such as gravity—hardly apply, while other phenomena—like quantum waveforms—have major influence. Even something as basic as the ra...