Smallest 'guitar string' to weigh atoms

September 23, 200421 yr

Scientists hope that "playing" a tiny guitar string, the smallest ever created, will help unravel some of the secrets of the molecular world.

The string, developed at Cornell University, US, is only 10 atoms across, a million times smaller than a normal guitar string.

It is made from a carbon nanotube, formed from a sheet of carbon one atom thick and rolled into a cylinder.

September 23, 200421 yr

I thought maybe you were referring to this

I did a bit of work at the Cornell NNF lab. Pretty neat stuff.

September 24, 200421 yr

What would you use to pluck those strings?

October 18, 200421 yr

What would you use to pluck those strings?

...nano-picks? :cool:

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