Process for making metallic microcylinders from pre-treated diacetylenic
lipid tubules which includes placing the tubules into an electroless plating bath
containing a metal plating reagent, depositing by electroless plating on the surfaces
of the tubules enough of a metal to make the tubules electrically conducting, separating
the tubules from the plating bath, treating the tubules to remove the lipid and
form the metal microcylinders, washing and drying the microcylinders to produce
the metal microcylinders having aspect radio of about 12, weight average length
of about 20, weight average outside diameter of about 1.5, and weight
average wall thickness of about a quarter of one micron.
