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ArticleBody:Good luck trying to twirl your fork around the world’s thinnest piece of spaghetti. This nanofiber is about 200 times thinner than a human hair and was created by a team at University College London . While it won’t be making its way onto the menu of an Italian restaurant anytime soon, this creation was cooked up in a lab because nanofibers have wide applications in medicine and industrial design.
Beatrice Britton/Adam Clancy. The next thinnest known pasta is su filindeu–or threads of God– and is made by hand by a pasta maker in the town of Nuoro, Sardinia. Su Fillindeu is estimated at about 400 microns wide, making it roughly 1,000 times thicker than this new electrospun laboratory creation. At 372 nanometers, this new lab-made spaghetti is narrower than some wavelengths of light.
Beatrice Britton/Adam Clancy. The needle that contains the mixture and the metal plate where the mixture is deposited create two ends of a battery. Adding an electrical charge makes the mixture complete the circuit. It streams out of the needle and onto the metal plate. Also, electrospinning using a starch-rich ingredient like white flour is more challenging than using pure starch.
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