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Scientists get whimsical

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on July 28, 2008 at 2:36:18 pm
 

Even scientists get bored and want to do something a little more creative with all the fancy equipment they have at hand.

 

German scientists celebrate Christmas

They created 'the world's smallest advent calendar' after work one night. Three students from the University of Regensburg's micro- and nanostructures group. They created the traditional 24-day calendar with images for the open doors dated December 1 through 6. The doors open to images that include a church, Santa Claus, a bell, stars, a snowman, and a candle. The stained glass windows in the church measure about 20 nanometres (one billionth of a metre). Meant for the group's Christmas greeting on their home page, the rectangular calendar measures 8.4 microns x 12.4 microns (one million of a metre) with 'Merry Christmas from nanonic' in German at the bottom.[1]

 

Image from University of Regensberg

 

Japanese scientists create a noodle bowl

Entered in a microphotography competition in May 2008, the world's smallest ramen in a bow image was originally produced in December 2006. Professor Masayaku Nakao and his students of The Nakao Hamaguchi Lab. at the University of Tokyo produced 'carbon nanotube ramen' in a microscopic bowl measuring one thousandth of a millimetre. "We believe it is the smallest ramen bowl with the smallest portion of noodles though they're not edible," Nakao said.[2]

 

Photomicrograph released in May 2008, image created in 2006 at the Nakao Hamguch Laboratory at the University of Tokyo.

Footnotes

  1. Nanowerk (Dec. 14, 2007) ‘Nanotechnology specialists make world’s smallest ever advent calendar’. [news posting] (Accessed May 5, 2008 from http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=5577.php)
  2. Physorg.com (May 29, 2008) ‘Japanese scientists create microscopic noodle bowl’. [article] (Accessed July 8, 2008 from http://www.physorg.com/news131288928.html)

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