A team of chemists in London have created nanopasta that is 'literally spaghetti but much smaller' by pulling flour and liquid through the tip of a needle using an electric charge.
The world's thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a team of UK chemists. The team at University College London used a technique called 'electrospinning' to create the nanofibres as part of master's student Beatrice Britton's research. 'To make spaghetti, you push a mixture of water and flour through metal holes,' said the study's co-author Dr Adam Clancy.
'In addition, nanofibers are being explored for use as a scaffold to regrow tissue, as they mimic the extra-cellular matrix - a network of proteins and other molecules that cells build to support themselves.' Nanofibres are usually created by extracting starch from plant cells and then purifying it, which requires a lot of energy and water, according to the team at UCL.
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