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On the cutting edge: Carbon nanotube cutlery

11-22-2006 · EurekAlert!

Researchers at NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder have designed a prototype carbon nanotube "knife" that would work like a tight-wire cheese slicer for cutting cells, allowing scientists to study them more precisely than they can today.

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