Part of complete coverage on By Joseph Flaherty, Wired August 5, 2014 -- Updated 1337 GMT (2137 HKT) Wim Noorduin creates tiny sculptures through a chemical reaction He carefully manipulates variables to control the shapes which look like flowers Noorduin's nano-size bouquets also have serious applications in materials science research (CNN) -- Most flowers start as seeds planted in soil, but Wim Noorduin, currently a post-doc researcher at Harvard, prefers to craft bouquets using Barium carbonate and sodium metasilicate.