Small Vol. 14 No. 44

Artwork featured on the cover of Small Vol. 14 No. 44. Created for Tedrick Lew and Dr. Michael Strano from MIT’s Chemical Engineering Department for their paper "Plant Protoplasts: Rational Design Principles for the Transport and Subcellular Distribution of Nanomaterials into Plant Protoplasts."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/smll.201870202

The illustration shows the passive transport of a nanotube into the chloroplast of a protoplast (plant cell without a cell wall).