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Home → Blog → Sometimes we do nano for fun

Sometimes we do nano for fun

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Carl Batt

Researchers at Georgia Tech have made the ‘World’s Smallest Ad’ created for Arby’s, the fast food restaurants.  The ad was printed on the side of a sesame seed, like the one you might find….wait for it….on a roast beef sandwich bun.  The size of the ad was about 800 square microns (less than the width of a hair in either dimension) which is pretty small but still almost a billion square nanometers.  If you were at the Arby’s in NYC apparently you got to ‘see’ one of these seeds using a scanning electron microscope.  What happened to this seed isn’t obvious, hopefully it didn’t wind up on a roast beef sandwich that was woofed down by a customer.

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