Or, to use a beaten-to-death comparison: a single hair from you head is about 50,000 - 100,000 nm thick. Want more? Human hair fragment (the purplish thing) on top of a network of single-walled carbon ...

When materials are created on a nanometer scale -- just a handful of atoms thick -- even the thermal energy present at room temperature can cause structural ripples. How these ripples affect the ...

Plastic is a daily part of modern life. Now, it’s also part of your body — and brain — according to researchers at the ...

With the distance between traces as little as 3 nanometers today (a human hair is usually between 80,000 and 100,000 nanometers thick), it's clear you need specialized equipment to do this work.

Using a semiconductor manufacturing process, the team created alumina structures 28 nanometers thick (more than 1,000 times thinner than the diameter of a human hair) on the silicon wafer with ...