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MRS: balloon art!

A giant carbon nanotube made out of black balloons is being built here. And i helped make it! It's been the highlight of my day.

Wendy Crone from the University of Wisconsin Madison made the original giant tube that was 40 feet high, and a shorter version (restricted by the ceiling height) is being built by a local balloon artist Todd Neufeld.

The model is usually taken round museums. Crone told me that trying to explain nanotechnology to people was made tricky by the fact that you can't see things on the nanoscale. So she decided to go big. Huge, in fact. And balloon-y. Genius. Neufeld, originally an engineer, has just started studying for a materials science course, although i'm not sure how much that has to do with the balloon tube.

Posted by Katharine Sanderson on November 28, 2006
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It would be great if you can povide photo of this.

Posted by: Karen Melron | August 7, 2007 10:15 PM

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