1 nanometre
To help compare different orders of magnitudes this page lists lengths between 10−9 metres and 10−8 metres (1 nanometre and 10 nanometres).
Distances shorter than 1 nanometre
- 1 nm = 1 nanometre = 1000 picometres = 10 angstroms
- 2 nm — diameter of DNA helix[1]
- 3.4 nm — length of a DNA turn (10 bp)[2]
- 3.48 nm — size of an albumin protein molecule[3]
- 5 nm - size of the gate length of a 16 nm processor.
- 6.8 nm — width of a haemoglobin molecule[4]
- 7.5 nm - thickness of a cell membrane
Distances longer than 10 nanometres
See also
Notes
- ↑ Stewart, Robert. "Dr.". Radiobiology Software. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
- ↑ Dominique Langevin. "Chapter 10: DNA-Surfactant/Lipid Complexes at Liquid Interfaces". In Rita S Dias and Bjorn Lindman. DNA Interactions with Polymers and Surfactants (PDF). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-470-25818-7. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
DNA has 20 elementary charges per helical turn over the corresponding length of 3.4nm
- ↑ Perry, John A (1994). Lough, et. al., W.J., ed. "Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications of Liquid Chromatography" (PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS). Progress in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis (Kidlington, Oxford U.K.: Elsevier Science Ltd) 1: 148. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
Albumin has a molecular weight of 65,600 daltons, a prolate ellipsoid shape, 15nm by 3.8nm
- ↑ Acharya, SA; Friedman, JM; Manjula BN, Intaglietta M, Tsai AG, Winslow RM, Malavalli A, Vandegriff K, Smith PK. (2005). "Enhanced molecular volume of conservatively pegylated Hb: (SP-PEG5K)6-HbA is non-hypertensive." (JOURNAL ARTICLE). Artificial cells, blood substitutes, and immobilization biotechnology (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA: US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health) 33 (3): 239–55. doi:10.1081/bio-200066365. PMID 16152690. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
..a molecular radius of approx. 6.8 nm
External links
- "A nano-scale overview". Nanotechnology/Overviews. Wikibooks. Archived from the original on 26 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
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