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A coming marriage: Additive Manufacturing and Nanotechnology

Impact: Nanotechnology    June 1, 2010
It could be a marriage made in engineering heaven: Additive manufacturing and nanotechnology. First, let’s introduce additive manufacturing. Throughout history manufacturing of metallic parts and most other materials as well starts with a solid shape of the material and gets cut down to size. If you want to make a sword, you first get a [...]
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Possible frictionless nanomachinery using the Casimir effect

Impact: Nanotechnology    December 9, 2009
The notion of operating machinery without friction is, of course, fiction – except, possibly, in the realm of quantum field theory. When it comes to the very very small (nanoscale) and the way materials behave at the quantum level, the rulebook we use at human scale has to be re-written. Think about it, what would [...]
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Lasers make nanoyarn

News: Nanotechnology    December 5, 2009
Add another ‘nano’ contraction to the list: Nanoyarn. In this case, the ‘yarn’ is composed of nanotubes created from boron nitride. (Boron nitride is what makes ‘clown white’ white.) The word yarn is suggestive of possible uses and reasonably accurate. The new nanoyarn, manufactured for the first time by the U.S. Department of Energy Jefferson [...]
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