World's smallest published book.(NEWS / NOUVELLES)

Canadian Chemical News, November, 2007

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It's a big feat of the tiniest proportions. Simon Fraser University (SFU)'s Nano Imaging Lab has produced the world's smallest published book. The only catch--you'll need a scanning electron microscope to read it.

At 0.07 millimetres x 0.10 millimetres, Teeny Ted from Turnip Town is a tinier read than any other cited by the Guinness Book of World Records. By way of comparison, the head of a pin is about 2 millimetres.

The production of the nanoscale book was carried out at SFU by publisher Robert Chaplin, with the help of SFU scientists Li Yang and Karen Kavanagh. The work involved using a focused-gallium-ion beam and one of a number of electron microscopes available in SFU's nano imaging facility. A nanometre is about...

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