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Nano Scale Artworks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-thought-art-professors-graded-on-size dept.

Matthew Sparkes writes "This article is a list of the best nano-scale artworks. It includes a 15 micron wide badger, a ten micron long guitar (which was actually played) and a 120 micron long New Scientist logo. Of course these are the images that got released to the press. In labs around the world people must have used their bleeding-edge technologies to make structures just to impress their friends. I wonder how many scientists' significant others have received nano-Valentines on Feb 14th?"

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  1. One of my favorite... by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...forms of nanoscale artwork is the art etched into microchips. It's more fun than most nanoscale art, because if you start pulling apart ICs and putting them under a powerful enough microscope, you can spot all kinds of artwork.

    For those who are unfamiliar with it, I highly recommend the Molecular Expressions Silicon Zoo gallery of chip art:

    http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/

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  2. Microns are not nanoscale by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thousands of nanometers is not nanoscale. I work with researchers who like to report measurements in thousands of nanometers instead of microns. It's stupid. Don't do it.