New Microscope Shows Nano-Fibre Formation

Freshly Exhumed writes "An article, with mpeg and avi movies, in Chemical and Engineering News describes how researchers from Danish high-tech firm Haldor Topsoe and the Danish Technical University have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of nano-research. With the help of a specially designed microscope, researchers can now directly observe carbon nano-fibre formation. This is a prelude to actually controlling the growth of the fibres, which up until now has been very problematic. The new microscope's impact is expected to have tremendous significance for the development of future electronic components, energy extraction, and environmental technology."

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server suicide

[flogger]

It has been a long time since 5 meg video files posted on slashdot haven;t been, well, slashdotted. mirror is at this spot.

Re:Micro, Nano... Tecto?

[Qwerpafw]

What's smaller than nano? (Keep in mind that nano means "one billionth", or unit * 10^-9)

pico (symbol is "p") is 10^-12, or one-thousandth of a nano.

femto (symbol is "f") is 10^-15, or one-millionth of a nano.

atto (symbol is "a") is 10^-18, or one-billionth of a nano (nano means one-billionth, so atto is one billionth of a billionth)

zepto (symbol is "z") is 10^-21, or nano divided by one trillion.

yocto (symbol is "y") is 10^-24, or nano divided by one quadrillion.

Yocto would be one-millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a unit. That's very small.

pardon me

[cyfer2000]

may be a little off topic, but I feel it is very important.

The avi files are from http://pubs.acs.org, millions of researchers and professors and students in chemistry related areas arround the world need this web site to read publications from ACS.

So please don't /. this website. Especially, if you are not really interest in the avi files, don't click them.

Thank you.

Not much ...

[zonix]

First pastries and bacon, now this. Is there anything the Danish can't do?

Not much. Perhaps you recognize these guys?

• Tycho Brahe (astronomy)
• Niels Bohr (physics)
• Bjarne Stroustrup (C++ creator)
• Hans Christian Andersen, Soeren Kierkegaard, Karen Blixen (tales, essays, short stories)
• Victor Borge (comedy)
• Bille August (movie director)
• Carl Nielsen (classical composer)
• Arne Jacobsen (designer - the father of modern danish design)

They're all Danes. Perhaps some interesting companies too:

• Novo (largest supplier of insulin, creator of the world smallest syringes - a perfect combo)
• Lego (well)
• Carlberg (mmmm... beer)
• Maersk (shipping inddustry - look for the star logo)

We're also the worlds largest producer of windmills, I believe? We can do pretty much everything.

I don't know about the pastries. A "Danish" as you know it, is not called a Dasish in Denmark - it's not even believed to be Danish, if I'm not mistaken? :-)

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