I am sure many of you scientific types have heard of bucky balls and buckypaper and even understand how they came into existence. To me though the whole concept is new and exciting, nanotechnology not exactly being an everyday tool on a dairy farm.
However, the potential exists for virtually everyone to use material made of buckypaper in some form or other in the future. Just discovering the stuff is incredible. Imagine doing research on manufacture of carbon by stars and turning out molecules that can be made into a substance ten times lighter than steel yet 500 times stronger! Alan and I have been emailing back and forth all morning about it....cool stuff!
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What makes it even more dramatic is when you think back even as little as 75 years ago what we were using for construction. Amazing stuff. Over the years, we've seen developments from everything from tennis racquets, to bicycles to cameras so this sounds doable.
ReplyDeleteThe whole field of nanotechnology makes my head spin.
ReplyDeleteSteve, we had a great time speculating about it anyhow...can't wait to read more about it!
ReplyDeleteJan, yeah, it does me too!