Scanning, tunneling microscope

STM

Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig of IBM’s research laboratories in Zurich's nanoprobe.

Equipped with the STM, essentially a scaled down gramophone needle, scientists could begin to peer around this landscape seeing and touching individual atoms.

football shaped carbon molecule

First find in a family of molecules called fullerenes.

C60 was a wonderful discovery because so

many little mysteries in various corners of science … sort of … fell

into place.

Geckos

Miniture hairs on their feet

Sythetic fibres that adapt to the surface and the molecular attraction causes a "sticky" effect.

convergence of the scanning probe microscope and the c60

Jim Gimzewski of the

University of California at Los Angeles.

Toy invention

describes how the semiconductor industry

progresses over time

technology to build synthetic relalities

pario (to create) media

teleconferencing - shake hands with a claytronics rendered being.

Particle size and shape can change a way a particle acts.

E.g cadmium selenide; different size particles are different colours

particles can have hundreds of different toxicological profiles depending on size.

Evidence suggests ultra fine and nanoparticles can be more harmful than larger particles.

particles smaller than ten micrometers

less than 2.5 micrmeters