The Tensiometer: Micro-sized
Colin Campbell
A strand of a spider’s web is 5 micrometers in width. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices range in size from 20 micrometers to one millimeter. That’s the incredibly small size of the components used in the tensiometer being developed by PhD candidate, Michael Santiago, and his collaborators, professors Abraham Stroock and Alan Lakso at Cornell University. […] The post The Tensiometer: Micro-sized appeared first on Environmental Biophysics .