Techotic

Mechanical engineering students at the University of Tokyo, Japan have create a bowl of noodles so small it can be seen only through a microscope.

The world’s smallest ramen bowl was carved out of microscopic nanotubes with a diameter 1/25,000 of an inch.

Nanotubes are tube-shaped pieces of carbon, measuring about one-ten-thousandth of the thickness of a human hair.

Carbon nanotubes are being explored for a wide range of uses in electronics and medicine because their structure endows them with powerful physical properties such as a strength greater than steel.

The ramen bowl experiment included a string of ‘noodles’ that measured one-12,500th of an inch in length, with a thickness of one-1.25 millionth of an inch.

The microscopic bowl was first created in December 2006, but revealed only Thursday after it was entered for a microphotography competition last week.