Polymers Make Mona Lisa Smile

The Mona Lisa rendered on the microscale with polymers.

This time, we know why the Mona Lisa is smiling. She’s smiling in this particular rendering because Chinese researchers have made special 3D polymer “nanobrushes” to copy her face on a miniaturized scale. In a Chemistry World article, Mike Brown describes a new quick and cheap approach that exploits the distance between arrays of polymer [...]