Tiny plastic fibers, each with a diameter of 250 nanometers, spontaneously wrapped around a plastic ball when they were immersed in an evaporating liquid, demonstrating a new way of controlling the self-assembly of polymer hairs. The image was produced with a scanning electronic microscope and was digitally enhanced for color.
Photo: Sung Hoon Kang, Boaz Pokroy and Joanna Aizenberg
Source: New York Times: Visualizing Science
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