Aug 8, 2008 21:10
Anonymous Cow writes "Researchers have inflated gas-filled balloons of graphene, the atom-thick carbon material being used to make super-small transistors. Apart from giving them a valid claim to be in the Guinness Book of Records, it could apparently be handy for weighing microscopic objects. 'The sheets were used to seal microscopic wells made in a layer of silica glass, forming a kind of drum head. The membranes were held in place only by the van der Waals forces that make things sticky at microscopic scales. The wells varied from 1 to 100 square micrometers in area and 250 nanometers to 3 micrometers deep.'"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.plsid=08/08/08/192227&amp;from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.plfrom=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=08/08/08/192227"><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.plsid=08/08/08/192227&amp;from=rss">Read more of this story at Slashdot.<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdota=7IVjex"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdoti=7IVjex" border="0"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/359733245" height="1" />
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