World's smallest maple leaf created in Edmonton for Canada 150

One of this summer’s most unique Canada 150 items is a maple leaf so tiny that it’s not even visible to the naked eye.
At ten 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.
The maple leaf was created by University of Alberta doctoral student Roshan Achal. He said in a press release that his team wanted to