Jonathan Langdale originally shared this post:

Tiny plastic fingers, each with a diameter 1/500th of a human hair, cradle a tiny green sphere

I love this photo. I saw it on +Rich Pollett's profile and wondered what it was, and where to find the high-resolution file:
http://goo.gl/61fm4

From:
http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2010/0218sp_viz.shtml

Tiny plastic fibers, each with a diameter of 250 nm, spontaneously wrapped around a plastic ball when they were immersed in an evaporating liquid. First reported in Science (Pokroy et al., Science 2009), the finding demonstrates a new way of controlling the self-assembly of polymer hairs. The image was produced with a scanning electronic microscope and was digitally enhanced for color.
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