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Your next car could be smaller... MUCH smaller -- The Nanocar
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:04 pm
by kostby
Quote »Rice scientists build world's first single-molecule car'Nanocar' with buckyball wheels paves way for other molecular machinesThe nanocar consists of a chassis and axles made of well-defined organic groups with pivoting suspension and freely rotating axles. The wheels are buckyballs, spheres of pure carbon containing 60 atoms apiece. The entire car measures just 3-4 nanometers across, making it slightly wider than a strand of DNA. A human hair, by comparison, is about 80,000 nanometers in diameter. Link to full article & illustrations -->
http://media.rice.edu/media/Ne...08724
Re: Your next car could be smaller... MUCH smaller -- The Nanocar (kostby)
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:33 pm
by JustinVGT
One of my friends is completed his BS in Nano Technology and is now working on his Masters. Really is amazing technology, but I also saw on the Discovery channel or one of those science channels, a special on ways the world may end. One idea was that nano machines will kill off everything, by eating away everything carbon based. I think that's what they were saying, this was a couple months ago and I'm no scientist. They were explaining how nano machines can replicate themselves at such huge rates. It was a very interesting show segment and scary to think if it were to happen.
Re: Your next car could be smaller... MUCH smaller -- The Nanocar (kostby)
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:23 pm
by ZubenElGenubi
So, where's the trunk?
Re: Your next car could be smaller... MUCH smaller -- The Nanocar (ZubenElGenubi)
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:46 am
by mcgusto82
great! another honda.
Re: Your next car could be smaller... MUCH smaller -- The Nanocar (mcgusto82)
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:56 am
by redlava
Those rims definitely got to go. Wonder if they can make Buckyballs out of Chrome instead of Carbon....