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http://news.com.com/2300-1008_3-6169351.html
"UCLA professor Thomas G. Mason and chemistry graduate student Carlos J. Hernandez produced particles that are just microns wide and shaped like each letter of the alphabet. Graduate student James Wilking used "laser tweezers" to pick up the letters 'U, C, L, A' and move them in order."
Be sure to click "Next" for the second image too.
15 May 2007 — 6:00am
This is sweet—how long until I can have type in my blood?
15 May 2007 — 6:40am
Wow!
I want an injection as well. Now we can all literally become type junkies.
But what typeface is it?
15 May 2007 — 6:59am
Actually Simon posted this recently.
Blood? Well, my submission to the erstwhile Typophile
t-shirt contest did say "type is my blood". Set in Sangue.
hhp
15 May 2007 — 9:06am
Using nanomanipulation to create logos dates back to 1990, when Eigler and Schweizer used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to etch the IBM logo onto a nickel substrate using just 35 atoms of Xenon. That and other images can be found at:
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/catalogue.html.
An Intel logo is at:
http://www.physics.purdue.edu/nanophys/stm.html
Penn State's logo:
http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/Weiss12-2005.htm
Cornell:
http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/ardlouis/dissipative/QAtunneling.html
Notre Dame:
http://www.rhk-tech.com/results/AFM-oxidation.php
Ohio:
http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~hla/movies.html
National Institute of Standards (NIST):
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/hiphopatoms.htm
And for something completely different, a Bucky Badger made out of carbon nanotubes:
http://stm.pennnet.com/articles/stm_print_screen.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=256493
17 May 2007 — 12:42pm
Is this how they make alphabet soup into a lovely purée? I couldn't resist after that second page.
Chef-Boy-R-Horton
Founder, This Day in Type
17 May 2007 — 3:48pm
If you scroll down to "Related stories" and click on "Nano alphabet soup gets cooking," there's a story with a little more detail, including this:
"The letters could be manufactured to conform to a variety of typefaces, even something like the Times New Roman font favored by many newspapers."
Hard to tell if "even something..." means that they don't like TNR, or that they think it would be a great achievement to duplicate it.
17 May 2007 — 5:05pm
It probably means something that's not just composed of stick lines.
hhp