That's a Stretch (IMAGE)

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

That's a Stretch

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Sandia-developed interfacial force microscope tip unexpectedly creates a tendril from a block of salt as the tip retreats from the salt surface. The picture was taken by a transmission electron microscope at the Sandia/Los Alamos Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies.

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Jianyu Huang

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