How many Buckys can fit on the head of a pin? Well, if it’s Nano Bucky, created in the research lab of UW-Madison chemistry professor Robert Hamers, the answer is up to 9,000. “Bucky is made from very small carbon hairs,” explained Hamers. “These nanofiber hairs are about fifty nanometers in diamater, about one one-thousandth the width of a human hair.” (Audio.)
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