Nano-guitar.

By Alex in Music, Pictures, Science & Tech on Feb 24, 2006 at 2:32 pm

Behold the world’s smallest guitar, made by Dustin Carr and Harold Craighead of Cornell University’s Nanofabrication Facility. The nano-guitar is 10 micrometers long, about the size of a single cell human blood cell. Each of the six strings are 50 nanometers wide, about the width of 10 atoms.

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  1. Nate
    Jan 11th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

    This was the image that got me into chemistry and science. Now, i’m studying for a phd in chemistry with an emphasis on nanotechnology

  2. The World’s Smallest Stuff - Hoovaloo.com
    Oct 6th, 2007 at 5:00 am

    [...] Dustin Carr and Harold Craighead of Cornell University’s Nanofabrication Facility created the Nano-guitar – it’s only 10 micrometers long (about the size of a single cell). The guitar strings are each [...]


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