The nano world of Shrinky Dinks

The magical world of Shrinky Dinks - an arts and crafts material used by children since the 1970s - has taken up residence in a Northwestern University laboratory. A team of nanoscientists is using the flexible plastic sheets as the backbone of a new inexpensive way to create, test and mass-produce large-area patterns on the nanoscale...

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