John Hart, a professor at the University of Michigan, has created a super-small tribute to President-elect Obama using 150 million nanotubes. (Each one is less than a millimeter in diameter and can only be seen through a microscope.)
What does nontubes mean??? sounds cool tho.
Here's the wikipedia entry on carbon nanotubes. Don't be intimidated: the hardest bit to wrap your mind around is how small these things are.
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What does nontubes mean??? sounds cool tho.
Here's the wikipedia entry on carbon nanotubes. Don't be intimidated: the hardest bit to wrap your mind around is how small these things are.
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