John Hart, a professor at the University of Michigan, has created a super-small tribute to President-elect Obama using 150 million nanotubes. (Each one is less than a millimeter in diameter and can only be seen through a microscope.)

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<em>mmoh1009</em>'s picture
mmoh1009 says:

What does nontubes mean??? sounds cool tho.

posted on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 5:23pm
<em>Liza</em>'s picture
Liza says:

Here's the wikipedia entry on carbon nanotubes. Don't be intimidated: the hardest bit to wrap your mind around is how small these things are.

posted on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 5:28pm

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