Yep, it's here at last - flexible material made from carbon nanotubes. I think if you run the tensile strength comparisons, it'll beat Origamido paper hands down...
http://www.nanotechweb.org/articles/news/4/2/2/1
I'm assuming it's a centimetre rule in the kabuto picture, so admittedly it's not so impressive, since this simple model can be folded out of a much smaller square of foil.
And here's a crane, done by another research group a year earlier:
http://staff.aist.go.jp/h-kataura/nanotubebird.html
http://www.nanoworld.jp/apnw/articles/l ... f/2-35.pdf (pdf reader with Japanese language support needed for this one)
Now, how do I go about ordering larger sheets of that stuff...
Nanopaper!
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i expect u wont be able to buy it for a while yet, and even when u can it will be expensive. nanotubes are extremely cool though... i remember when they were discovered... you can make them out of sonobe modules if u have the patience... and if you use pentagons and heptagons u can put bends and even branches in them.
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the name comes from the prefix "nano" which means one billionth, and the term nanotechnology which means technology on the nanometre scale (the scale which is measured in billionths of a metre). Nano is a big buzz word in science at the moment... nanotubes, nanotechnology, nanomaterials, nanoparticles, etc etc etc. I have no idea what a nanite is.
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Man, are people still using that term?? Nanites are about as real as flower fairies or lurking grues.hermanntrude wrote:I have no idea what a nanite is.
No, the tubes are made using fairly standard semiconductor processing methods. Their diameters are around 10-40 nanometres, and their lengths are about 100-1000 times this figure.
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Since the question about this paper arose in another topic, I took the liberty to bring this topic up front again.
Anyone knows any news about this? Any changes during the last half year?
A quick search on the internet didn't give me any news.
I'd love to get hold of a piece of that paper to try it
Anyone knows any news about this? Any changes during the last half year?
A quick search on the internet didn't give me any news.
I'd love to get hold of a piece of that paper to try it
So long and keep folding ^_^
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