Have you heard of this new Carbon Nanotubes body armor?

BBC News reports the impending use of carbon nanotubes to create ultra-strong body armor. Far stronger than any known filament, carbon nanotubes are manufactured by scientists who roll a single-atom-thick stretch of carbon, in the form of graphite, into tiny tubes. According to the report, carbon nanotubes are ideal for body armor because material made [...]

Atom-Sized Electronic Switch Unveiled

Atom-Sized Electronic Switch Unveiled
On Monday, Australian scientists unveiled the world’s smallest electronic switch measuring just a few atoms, which will shrink microchips and revolutionize computing speeds.
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Atom Computers ? Benefiting from Nanotechnology

Computers of the future will use atoms instead of chips for memory. That’s a simplified way of saying that within the next few years, we can expect miniaturization to go into the atomic level to bring to the consumer and the office more power computers that require significantly less power and possess lesser footprints. Using [...]

Please help me with this volume problem…?

Nanotechnology, the field of trying to build ultrasmall structures one atom at a time, has progressed in recent years. One potential application of nanotechnology is the construction of artificial cells. The simplest cells would probably mimic red blood cells, the body’s oxygen transporters. For example, nanocontainers, perhaps constructed of carbon, could be pumped full of [...]

Nanotechnology, proton sails to reach light speed?

Scientists create the atom-size Maxwell’s Demon device
• Physicist James Clerk Maxwell first imagined it in 1867
• The mechanism traps molecular-sized particles as they move
on cnn.com
What if we created a molecular compound that was adhesive to light protons, the concept being that the slowing down of a light proton could cause a friction energy in the [...]

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