What is the role of the electron microscope in nanotecnology?
Electron microscopes are they only type of microscope capable of
seeing objects that small. They can be used to look at structures
that would normally be too small to see. The following link shows a
picture of carbon nanotubes from an electron microscope. These
tubes are only a few nanometers wide (approximately 1/50,000th of
the width of a human hair). The nanotubes:
http://www.denniskunkel.com/product_info.php?products_id=9110 More
on nanotubes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube