From: Doug Skrecky (oberon@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Wed Dec 15 1999 - 00:50:37 MST
The Tuesday December 14,1999 edition of the Vancouver Sun
carried an interesting article from the Washington Post entitled:
World's Tiniest Tweezers Latest Tool for
Altering Single Molecules.
Quote:
"Charles M. Lieber of Harward University and a colleague
crafted a pair of "nanotweezers" by attaching two bundles
of carbon "nanotubes" to either side of a glass rod. The
bundles, a mere 50 nanometers in diameter, open and
close when a small jolt of electricity is applied. In tests,
the tweezers could manipulate polystyrene spheres 300
nanometers in diameter and semiconductor wires 20
nanometers in diameter."
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My thought is that a mechanical computer could soon be
built with nanotweezer equiped nanorobots manipulating a
nano-abbacus with nanobeads.
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