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Friday, August 19, 2005

Holy Sheet!

University of Texas researchers have produced carbon nanotube sheets. Among the cool potential applications:

organic light-emitting displays, low-noise electronic sensors, artificial muscles, conducting appliqués and broad-band polarized light sources that can be switched in one ten-thousandths of a second.


Not to mention ultra-light armor plating. Everything you need to build a battlemech. I think I'm becoming aroused.

posted by Jar(egg)head at 10:15

2 Comments:

Blogger mman said...

I just read about this from the Dallas Morning News. Great carbon sheet pun also. Nanotechnology is the future, no doubt. Have you read Michael Crighton's Prey? Today's science fiction is tomorrow's, you know the rest.

12:29  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jeff, you may also want to look at a Houston company that does the same, although from a different way of manufacturing.
http://www.cnanotech.com/

Also, for more discussion on the subject:
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/
Pete

12:32  

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