The first picture shows an overview of a nanotube rope wound around two posts on the side of an AFM cantilever. The second picture is a closeup. The rope has been pulled from some nanotube paper. Nanotube manipulation videos are here. The picture at left, from the same paper, shows our first attempt to make a 3D construction from nanotubes.
Numbers show the ordering of tube attachment.
See press release . Ralph Merkle's nanotechnology web site has moved to Zyvex. Shaping Biomedical Research . See this article on nanotechnology for an overview of the field and Zyvex's approach to it.