The cone shaped tip is just under one micrometer in length and has a radius of a few nanometers at its apex. |
This figure was used to convert subsequent contour measurements from nanometers to kilobases. |
The diagram below at right shows a virus that attacks bacteria, known as the lambda bacteriophage, which measures roughly 200 nanometers. |
That distance varies from a few hundred nanometers to a few micrometers, depending on atom velocity. |
Like water beading on the surface of a freshly waxed car, the palladium formed granular clusters just a few nanometers across. |
In fact, it can exhibit ordered structures with length scales ranging from micrometers to nanometers. |