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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Science! Smallest Periodic Table... Ever!
Posted by Scott "the Intern" Younker on Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:58 PM
Hurrah! Professor Martyn Poliakoff recently celebrated a birthday! He's rocking the mad scientist look, and everything seems to be all right in the world. Then he gets invited to the Nanotechnology Center at Nottingham University in England for a birthday present. So... what's the present?
Why, good ol' Poliakoff gets to have the Periodic Table of Elements engraved on to a strand of his hair by an electron microscope and an ion beam writer. Guys... you shouldn't have!
Check out the video of the process:
Via.
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