{"id":5198,"date":"2025-07-31T13:35:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:37:21","slug":"happy-swiss-national-holiday-2025-with-smallest-swiss-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/happy-swiss-national-holiday-2025-with-smallest-swiss-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Swiss National Holiday 2025 with Smallest Swiss Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Swiss National Holiday 2025 with Smallest Swiss Cross<\/p>\n<p>We are celebrating tomorrow\u2019s Swiss National Holiday courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/sci-tech\/smallest-swiss-cross-in-the-world-made-in-basel\/40505538\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Basel University<\/a> with the Smallest Swiss Cross \u2013 Made of 20 Single Atoms ( a NANOSENSORS PointProbePlus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/pointprobe-plus-non-contact-tapping-mode-long-cantilever-afm-tip-PPP-NCL\">PPP-NCL<\/a> AFM probe was used for this image).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5199\" style=\"width: 2299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NANOSENSORS-AFM-probes-wishes-Switzerland-Happy-Birthday-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5199\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NANOSENSORS-AFM-probes-wishes-Switzerland-Happy-Birthday-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Background graphics: Swiss flags and confetti celebrating the Swiss National HolidayGraphics: istock.com\/Tamara Luiza AFM image in front showing 20 bromine atoms positioned on a sodium chloride surface using the tip of an atomic force microscope at room temperature, creating a Swiss cross with the size of 5.6nm. The structure is stable at room temperature and was achieved by exchanging chlorine with bromine atoms. University of Basel, Department of Physics A NANOSENSORS PointProbePlus PPP-NCL AFM probe was used for this AFM image \" width=\"2289\" height=\"1708\" data-wp-pid=\"5199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NANOSENSORS-AFM-probes-wishes-Switzerland-Happy-Birthday-blog.jpg 2289w, https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NANOSENSORS-AFM-probes-wishes-Switzerland-Happy-Birthday-blog-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NANOSENSORS-AFM-probes-wishes-Switzerland-Happy-Birthday-blog-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NANOSENSORS-AFM-probes-wishes-Switzerland-Happy-Birthday-blog-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NANOSENSORS-AFM-probes-wishes-Switzerland-Happy-Birthday-blog-1536x1146.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NANOSENSORS-AFM-probes-wishes-Switzerland-Happy-Birthday-blog-2048x1528.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/NANOSENSORS-AFM-probes-wishes-Switzerland-Happy-Birthday-blog-422x315.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2289px) 100vw, 2289px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Birthday Switzerland with the smallest Swiss Cross:<br \/>20 bromine atoms positioned on a sodium chloride surface using the tip of an atomic force microscope at room temperature, creating a Swiss cross with the size of 5.6nm. The structure is stable at room temperature and was achieved by exchanging chlorine with bromine atoms. (Fig: University of Basel, Department of Physics)<br \/>graphics:: istock.com\/Tamara Luiza<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Swiss National Holiday 2025 with Smallest Swiss Cross We are celebrating tomorrow\u2019s Swiss National Holiday courtesy of Basel University with the Smallest Swiss Cross \u2013 Made of 20 Single Atoms ( a NANOSENSORS PointProbePlus PPP-NCL AFM probe was used for this image).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[880,17,18,448,339,398,19,1018,27,160,60,109,107,442,400],"class_list":{"0":"post-5198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-nanosensors-news","8":"tag-afm-cantilevers","9":"tag-afm-probes","10":"tag-afm-tips","11":"tag-afm","14":"tag-atomic-force-microscopy","15":"tag-bromine-atoms","16":"tag-pointprobe-plus-ppp","17":"tag-ppp-ncl","18":"tag-scanning-probe-microscopy","19":"tag-spm-probes","20":"tag-spm-tips","21":"tag-442","22":"tag-400"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5203,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions\/5203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}