New record set for the world’s smallest periodic table
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Emma Stoye2019-03-14T09:30:00
Table less than one fortieth the area of previous record holder is a gift for element maker Yuri Oganessian
In 2010 the University of Nottingham received a Guinness World Record for creating the world’s smallest periodic table. Lovingly etched onto one of chemist Martyn Poliakoff’s own hairs, it measured just 90µm by 46µm. Now, researchers at the university have beaten their own record, using electron beam lithography (EBL) to engrave a periodic table that is even tinier.