Nanoscale Mass Conveyor

Supplementary Material

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory press release

This introduction is suitable for a general audience.  

• LBL press release

Still Images

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TEM video stills showing metal tranport from left to right along a single carbon nanotube. (Figure 1 in the Letter to Nature). 

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Computer generated stills showing metal atoms moving along a nanotube from one metal droplet to another.  Created by Kenny Jensen

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• White background jpgs 22KB 59KB 412KB tifs0.5MB 1.7MB 21MB
• CG overlay on TEM data jpgs 26KB 74KB 1.4MB tifs0.5MB 0.9MB 33MB

Computer Generated Video

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Movie shows an artist's conception of the operation of mass conveyor.  Created by Kenny Jensen

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• QuickTime (13 MB)
• animated gif (0.1 MB)

Conveyor animation

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This animated gif is an animation of the conveyor analogy.  See Figure 4 in the Letter to Nature.  Animation by Chris Regan and Simon Rochester.

• animated gif  (12 MB)

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