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October 8, 2010
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Jun Yao traced the Rice logo--by hand--to create microscopic NanoOwls from carbon nanotubes.
Jun Yao, a graduate student at Rice University, traced the Rice logo--by hand--into electron-beam controller software to create microscopic NanoOwls from forests of carbon nanotubes.
Credit: Jun Yao and Noe Alvarez, Rice University
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