Down to the wire with world’s smallest zigzag
Posted in: 2013, NSWA Sydney scientist has created the world’s smallest metallic wire, which is 100,000 times shorter than the width of a hair. Dr Alex Donald, of the University of New South Wales, manipulated five silver atoms into a zigzag-shaped metal wire, overcoming previous difficulties of creating anything smaller than one-billionth of a metre. “Scientists can already…