
Tweezers often come handy while removing splinters or plucking eyebrows. In new research, Hao Yan and his colleagues at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute describe a pair of tweezers shrunk down to an astonishingly tiny scale. When the jaws of these tools are in the open position, the distance between the two arms is about 16 nanometers-over 30,000 times smaller than a single grain of sand. The group demonstrated that the nanotweezers, fabricated ...

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