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One of the summer’s Canada 150 creations is a maple leaf so tiny it’s not even visible to the naked eye.

At 10 nanometres in width, the leaf is 10,000 times smaller than a human hair and 53 million times smaller than the world’s largest maple leaf. It consists of just 32 atoms. A single human cell is estimated to have 100 trillion.

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The maple leaf was created by University of Alberta doctoral student Roshan Achal. He said in a news release that his team wanted to do a project that demonstrated their technological capabilities, but was also something fun and meaningful to mark Canada 150.

The maple leaf was made through a process called scanning tunnelling microscopy — a process of building structures atom by atom. The same process is used to create and study circuitry and to make smaller computational components.

Achal and his team are currently waiting to hear back from Guinness World Records with official recognition of their small sculpture.