(PhysOrg.com) — How hard do you have to pull on a single atom of — let’s say — gold to detach it from the end of a chain of like atoms?* It’s a measure of the astonishing progress in nanotechnology that questions that once would have interested only physicists or chemists are now being asked by engineers. To help with the answers, a research team at the National Institute of Standards and …

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