Researchers from Cornell University and Germany's University of Ulm successfully created the world's thinnest glass has a thickness of only 2 atoms. The glass set in the 2014 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records with size of only two seeds atom thickness.
Interestingly, the glass is invisible to the eye because it is so transparent and was created by accident. As quoted by LiveScience, they initially only heats the material called graphene (one of the thinnest and strongest materials in the world) on copper foil in a quartz furnace.
They see there are some things that he thought was dirt. Upon closer inspection, the object appears clearly as sertyawa consisting of silicon and oxygen are then formed glass elements. The glass layer is very thin. If the glass about the size of two atoms is seen through a microscope, a compound of silicon and oxygen will be seen clearly.
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| Researchers captured a microscopic photo of a sheet of glass only two atoms thick. Here it is blended with an artist's conception to show the structural rendering. (Picture from: http://www.livescience.com/) |
The researchers explained that the glass layer was made when the air leak and into the process of making graphene, as well as to react to the burning made of quartz (similar mineral composed of silicon and oxygen). Although the discovery accidentally, the scientists say that the discovery of the 2D front could go into nanotechnology category.
David A Muller, professor of applied and engineering physics from Cornell University said that he was very proud of his findings. According to him, it is the first finding that a person can see the atoms in the glass layer. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | LIVESCIENCE | WORLD RECORD ACADEMY | PIKIRAN RAKYAT 26092013]
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