The world's smallest QR code was created with silver atoms and can be read by a common phone.
Why it is true
Researchers at FZU used a scanning tunneling microscope to position silver atoms one by one, forming a QR code of 50 by 50 nanometres. Despite the size, the resulting image can be captured by a normal phone camera.
Source: FZU
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