A Thermometer In A Nanotube 18
Stone Rhino writes: "Yet another marvel has been created in the quest to create minature machines: a thermometer of liquid gallium within a carbon nanotube. The New York Times has an article on this. The thermometer is 10 microns long and measures temperatures from 120-950 degrees farenheit. Of course, the part I find most impractical about it is the fact that you need a scanning electron microscope to read it."
sounds interesting... (Score:3, Interesting)
that's fascinating though, i was under the impression that carbon atoms were pretty small, and a nanotube would only be about 6 atoms across...from what i recall, lithium is pretty far away from carbon on the periodic chart. how does one fit one (or more) lithium atoms inside this tiny tiny tube?