THE SMALLEST THINGS EVER PHOTOGRAPHED; Stunning nano world.
Byline: By AIDAN McGURRANTHIS amazing image just a millionth of a millimetre across shows that if small is beautiful microscopic is.. mindblowing.
The picture of freeze dried water droplets called liposomes won top prize in a competition run by the UK Micro and Nanotechnology Network.
More than 44 images, some of the tiniest seen, were submitted by scientists using powerful microscopes. Each was a nanometre, 80,000 times narrower than a hair.
Second prize shows a layer of chemical and the third magnetic fields by nanotubes of carbon.
Judge Alan Smith said: "Nanotechnology will bring big breakthroughs."
aidan.mcgurran.co.uk
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ATTRACTIVE: Magnetic field round carbon' 0.000 000 001 metre' DAZZLING: Chemical
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| Publication: | The Mirror (London, England) |
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| Date: | Mar 31, 2006 |
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