Nanotech World Records That Redefine Science

Explore the Guinness World Records in Nanotechnology, from atomic movies and 1 nm transistors to DNA Möbius strips and Vantablack. This lecture reveals how humanity is mastering the atomic scale — creating, manipulating, and designing matter molecule by molecule. This video is a guided tour of the wildest real-world records at the nanoscale — from atomic movies and DNA origami birds to Vantablack and 1 nm transistors. It shows how far human control over matter has gone, and where the next generation of “Guinness-level” nanotech feats might emerge.

In this video you will learn:
How IBM filmed “A Boy and His Atom” by dragging individual molecules to make the smallest stop-motion movie in history
How researchers built an atomic hard drive with 1,000× the density of today’s storage (but only at cryogenic temperatures)
How DNA origami can fold a 150 nm “paper crane,” a Möbius strip, and even logic-capable nanostructures
How nanocars, graphene light bulbs, Vantablack, and superhydrophobic coatings push mechanics, optics, and surface science to extreme limits
Why records like the 1 nm transistor and femtosecond molecular switches mark the true quantum edge of electronics

Timestamps:
00:00 — What counts as nanoscience? Putting the nanoscale in context
01:21 — Smallest movie ever made: “A Boy and His Atom”
03:41 — Atomic-scale hard drive: 1 kB in a 100 nm area
06:11 — Smallest origami bird built from DNA
08:46 — The first international nanocar race
10:31 — Thinnest light bulb: glowing graphene monolayer
12:16 — Smallest transistor (1 nm) and the quantum limit of Moore’s law
14:06 — Most water-repellent nano-engineered surface
15:31 — Darkest material: Vantablack carbon nanotube forest
17:01 — Smallest Möbius strip made from DNA
18:11 — Fastest molecular switch: femtosecond azobenzene flipping
19:16 — Future nanotech records: quantum computers, assemblers, nano-quantum networks
21:01 — Wrap-up: what these records say about human control at the atomic scale

#Nanotechnology #GuinnessWorldRecords #Nanomotor #Vantablack #DNAOrigami #Nanocar