Tuesday, December 18, 2018

MIT invents method to shrink objects to nanoscale using basic lab equipment

Using a laser to shrink simple objects to 1/1000 of its original size:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/17/us/mit-nanosize-technology-trnd/index.html

1 comment:

flashgordon said...

This one's made the rounds. Lifeboat posted it on their blog three times in one day.

They say the nano-scale accuracy went down as they tried to build bigger objects. Well, if they tried to take smaller objects, say a micron, and scale that down, they should get to 1 nanometer accuracy. Then, with massive parallelism . . . .

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