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Things Natural 10 -2 m 1 cm 10 mm Head of a pin 1-2 mm Things Manmade Human hair ~ 60-120 µm wide 0 nm diameter Dust mite 200 µm Virus 30-50 nm ATP synthase Ant ~ 5 mm Red blood cells (~7-8 µm) Chloroplast 5 microns Lipid bilayer 5-10 nm Nanoworld Mesoworld 10 -3 m 10 -4 m 10 -5 m 10 -6 m 10 -7 m 10 -8 m 10 -9 m 1,000,000 nanometers = 1 millimeter (mm) Ultraviolet Visible Infrared Microwave Soft x-ray 0.1 mm 100 µm 0.01 mm 10 µm 1,000 nanometers = 1 micrometer (µm) 0.1 µm 100 nm 0.01 µm 10 nm 1 nanometer (nm) 3-D grain structure Grain size ~ 10s of µm Magnetic domain structure Domain width ~ µm Self-assembled, Nature-inspired structure Many 10s of nm Pollen grain Red blood cells Hydration structure (~10nm domains) of Proton Exchange Membrane MicroElectroMechanical (MEMS) devices 10 -100 µm wide Nanotube electrode Tantalum microstructure Grain size ~ 10s of µm Self-assembled silicon coated carbon fibers Carbon nanotube ~1.3 nm diameter DNA ~2-1/2 nm diameter Atoms of silicon spacing 0.078 nm 10 -10 m 0.1 nm Quantum corral of 48 iron atoms on copper surface positioned one at a time with an STM tip Corral diameter 14 nm Carbon buckyball ~1 nm Office of Science, U.S. DOE 04-10-2013, pmd
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