Microscopic noodle bowl having the string of “noodles” inside.
(AP Photo/The Nakao Hamaguchi Laboratory of the University of Tokyo, HO)
A Noodle bowl that can be viewed only through a microscope have been created by Japanese scientists at the University of Tokyo. The item, having a diameter of 1/25,000 of an inch is made out of microscopic carbon nanotubes. The bowl contains a string of “noodles” too. Unfortunately it’s not edible because the noodle string have a length of only one-12,500th of an inch with a thickness of one-1.25 millionth of an inch.
Nanotubes are tube-shaped pieces of carbon, measuring about one-ten-thousandth of the thickness of a human hair.
Carbon nanotubes are being explored for a wide range of uses in electronics and medicine because their structure endows them with powerful physical properties such as a strength greater than steel.
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