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Physicists created the world's smallest QR code, measuring just 50 by 50 nanometers.

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Using a scanning tunneling microscope, researchers positioned silver atoms one by one to form a QR code that is more than a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair. The resulting image can be read by a common phone camera.

Source: FZU

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