World’s smallest book thanks to nanotechnology
Dragut, who is cowriter of this blog sent me a few links related with nanotechnology during the week. It seems that we will go on publishing interesting news and information about nanotechnology and its applications to product design field.
The one you will read now is rather a scientific challenge in order to force the limits of this technology: According to what is published in nanowerk.com, publisher Robert Chaplin and the scientists at the Nano Imaging Facility of Simon Fraser University created the world’s first nano-scale book.
The book even has an ISBN Book Number and if you have an electron microscope you would be able to read it: it is sized 0.07 mm X 0.10 mm. 🙂
The production of the nanoscale book was carried out at SFU by publisher Robert Chaplin, with the help of SFU scientists Li Yang and Karen Kavanagh. The work involved using a focused-gallium-ion beam and one of a number of electron microscopes available in SFU’s nano imaging facility.
With a minimum diameter of seven nanometers (a nanometer is about 10 atoms in size) the beam was programmed to carve the space surrounding each letter of the book.
The book is made up of 30 microtablets, each carved on a polished piece of single crystalline silicon, and has its own International Standard Book Number, ISBN-978-1-894897-17-4.
- Related pages
- Nanotechnology lab produces world’s smallest book, nanowerk.com
- Nano lab produces world’s smallest book, Simon Fraser University Public Affairs and Media Relations
- Simon Fraser University, Nano-Imaging Facility
- Robert Chaplin