A thin wire cuts through cheese more easily and cleanly than a flat blade does. Now, researchers have built a microscopic version of a cheese slicer—with a carbon nanotube for a wire—that’s aimed at making improved slices of frozen cells.
CUT UP. Pressure from an atomic-force microscope tip bends a carbon nanotube suspended between tungsten needles.
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