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Scrona Ltd, the spin off of ETH Zurich today etched their names in the Guinness Book of World Records for the smallest inkjet-printed color image in the world. An astounding size of 0.0092mm, this image is almost the size of cross-sectional area of a human hair. The printed image displays a clownfish on a cluster of sea anemones. To give perspective to the size, it is as big as a single pixel on a retina display. Due to the small size of the image, it is absolutely invisible to the naked eye and can only be seen through a special miniature microscope. The judges at the Guinness World Records too used the same microscope to view the image. The colored image was created using the remarkable 3D NanoDrip printing Technology, invented by ETH Zurich, also known as Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, a Switzerland based engineering, technology, science and mathematics university. It is amongst the top most technology and science universities in the world, just short of MIT, Cambridge, Stanford and National University of Singapore. This new technology, gaining recognition as a world record, will be marketed and commercialized by Scrona, the university's offshoot company. The microscope, µPeek, required to view the image too will be commercialized by the company, reported 3D Print.

Until this moment, even the most advanced semiconductor technologies could not handle these nanostructured materials with the accuracy that was revealed by ETH. The image that is a collaborated work of Scrona and ETH Zurich is not only pleasant to look at but also opens up many avenues towards the use of nanostructured materials in the new age optics and electronics, most importantly the display sector,

Therefore, the image printed by Scrona and ETH Zurich is not only nice to look at. It highlights new avenues towards the use of nanostructured materials in future electronics and optics, particularly in the display sector, said ETH Zurich.