• Question: what is the smallest thing you have discovered as a nanoscientist

    Asked by homicidalseb to Aggelos, Andrew, Eileen, Naomi, Shane on 13 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Shane Bergin

      Shane Bergin answered on 13 Nov 2012:

      I’ve been able to isolate individual sheets of graphite (pencil lead) that are only 1 atom thick – called graphene. I have taken pictures of these using a very very powerful microscope. i can see individual atoms in these pictures!

    • Photo: Andrew Jackson

      Andrew Jackson answered on 13 Nov 2012:

      @shane wow.. now being able to see individual atoms is very cool! im jealous. you will have to show me some day if i can pop over next door to physics!

    • Photo: Eileen Diskin

      Eileen Diskin answered on 14 Nov 2012:

      I’m not a nanoscientist – so I havent been able to discover anything like this.

      But the coolest thing that I’ve seen that a nanoscientist made was a self-repairing mobile phone, so if it got a scratch it could repair itself. Its like magic!

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