Happy birthday Professor Poliakoff! Researchers at the
University of Nottingham's Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Centre etched the entire Periodic Table on to a single
strand of Professor Poliakoff's hair as a birthday present. The
Periodic Table they created is so small it could fit onto a post-it
note over one million times! This video tells you more:
When the researchers at the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Centre aren't making birthday presents with their machines, they
study structures that are less than 100 nanometres (nm) in size -
that's less than a billionth of a metre.
Nanoscientists work on a huge variety of projects including
robotics, life-saving medical applications, green energy projects
and computers.
To find out more about nanoscience, visit the NanoYou website.