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Atomic love, in 3 dimensions

20 February 2010

Possibly the smallest Valentine's card in the world.

Scientists at the University of Birmingham, really took Valentine's day to heart this year and made possibly the smallest Valentines day card ever. Made of pure palladium it is only 8 nanometers in size. You might say making the card was also a work of love; clusters of palladium atoms bonded together on the surface of carbon and spontaneously arranged into the worlds smallest heart.

 

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