Nanotube Sheets Come Of Age

Nature.com ^ | 18 August 2005 | Mark Peplow

[RightWhale]

Art Bell was talking about this last night. Also space elevators, power satellites, and space mining.

[King Prout]

I haven't decided whether Art Bell is a loon, or a visionary AND a loon.

[Dawsonville_Doc]

Nifty is an understatement. This is staggering.

[RightWhale]

Robert Moog, 71.

That's a lot younger than I thought he was.

[Young Werther]

Exactly. Imagine what Rutan's Scaled Composites will build with this material!

[RightWhale]

Art's secret: Nobody gets on his show unless there is a screw loose somewhere.

[Gulf War One]

There are, in fact. This has huge implications for body armor.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Nano Nano

[King Prout]

thought you'd like it

[King Prout]

yep. I bet the spider-silk folks are a little pissed about this development ;)

[King Prout]

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Conspiracy Guy]

: )

[Mamzelle]

re: invests...

The U of SC (that's not Southern California) is gearing up for a big nano push, thanks to a handsome grant.

Wish the big noisemakers about investing in Embryonic Stem Cells could send the money, instead, into nano.

[snowsislander]

An interesting first-person history of how these were discovered by Dr. Iijima (now at NEC Laboratories) can be found here:

The discovery of carbon nanotubes - Guided by serendipity

[neverdem]

Thanks for the ping. I'll add the thread as a link to my list.

[furball4paws]

It's rare to see a revolutionary technology in its infancy and see it for what it can be. I think this may be one, like silicon semiconductors, transistors and fiber optics.

For those registered:

Sciencenews.org "Nanotube carpet mimics gecko feet" - just another way to look at 'em.

[furball4paws]

The most recent ScienceNews also has an article on this (no registration required for this one).

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050820/fob1.asp

[Wilhelm Tell]

This is history -- this could change almost everything, just like steam engine and later using electricity and the internal combustion engine changed everything. This might even be on the level of going from the bronze age to being able to manufacture things with steel. When my grandparents were born the world was still in the steam engine phase of development -- so much has changed in the past 150 years -- heck, so much has changed in the past 30 years it boggles the mind.

[billorites]

Nano, nano!