19-03-2010 - Engineers have demonstrated that light itself can twist ribbons of nanoparticles. The details are reported in the current edition of Science.

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While light has been known to affect matter on the molecular scalebending or twisting molecules a few nanometers in sizeit has not been observed causing such drastic mechanical twisting to larger particles. The nanoparticle ribbons in this study were between one and four micrometers long.
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