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The Scale of Things – Nanometers and More
Things Natural
Things Manmade
10-2 m
Ant
~ 5 mm
Dust mite
200 µm
10-4 m
Red blood cells
(~7-8 µm)
The Challenge
1,000,000 nanometers =
1 millimeter (mm)
MicroElectroMechanical
(MEMS) devices
10 -100 µm wide
0.1 mm
100 µm
P
10-5
m
0.01 mm
10 µm
Infrared
Fly ash
~ 10-20 µm
Microworld
Human hair
~ 60-120 µm wide
Head of a pin
1-2 mm
Microwave
10-3 m
1 cm
10 mm
1,000 nanometers =
1 micrometer (µm)
Pollen grain
Red blood cells
O
O
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O
O
O
O
O
O
O
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O
O
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O
O
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Zone plate x-ray “lens”
Outer ring spacing ~35 nm
Visible
10-6 m
O
~10 nm diameter
ATP synthase
0.1 µm
100 nm
Ultraviolet
Nanoworld
10-7 m
10-8 m
Fabricate and combine
nanoscale building
blocks to make useful
devices, e.g., a
photosynthetic reaction
center with integral
semiconductor storage.
0.01 µm
10 nm
Self-assembled,
Nature-inspired structure
Many 10s of nm
Nanotube electrode
10-9 m
Soft x-ray
1 nanometer (nm)
DNA
~2-1/2 nm diameter
Atoms of silicon
spacing ~tenths of nm
10-10 m
0.1 nm
Quantum corral of 48 iron atoms on copper surface
positioned one at a time with an STM tip
Corral diameter 14 nm
Carbon
buckyball
~1 nm
diameter
Carbon nanotube
~1.3 nm diameter
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
Office of Science, U.S. DOE
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