World’s smallest periodic table… by a hair’s breadth?

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have written what they believe is the world’s smallest periodic table — on the side of a human hair.

Appears in Issue 45

Tags: Brady Haran, Dr Chris Parmenter, Dr Mike Fay, Green Chemistry, nano technology, Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre, Physics, Professor Martyn Poliakoff, Professor Philip Moriarty, Sixty Symbols, world’s smallest periodic table