Research out of China; they used ice lithography to fabricate 72 nm patterns on living tardigrades. The wild thing isn’t just that they “tattooed” tardigrades. It’s that tardigrades are so resilient, and focused electron beams so precise, that 40% of them survived and went about their lives after the procedure.
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60 sats \ 3 replies \ @petertodd 1 May
This isn't a lithography process in the way you're probably thinking. Electron beams are very slow. So while they're useful for making certain kinds of prototypes and other low volume items, they're useless for mass production.
Also, the west has had this capability for a long time. Indeed, 72nm patterns aren't very special.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @fiatbad 1 May
Pfft. You're just salty cuz you don't have a tat as tardigreat as that one.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 1 May
I think visible tattoos are ugly and I'd never get one... But 72nm is an invisible tattoo...
You're right, I am just salty.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko OP 1 May
it has nothing to do with the 7nm nodes on silicone wafers, that's correct
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