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"I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers."
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Researchers are pretty close with this one. In November of 2006, NIST reported on carbon nanotube "cutlery" - a single carbon nanotube stretched between two tungsten needles.
(Scanning electron micrograph of a prototype 'nanoknife' )
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) have designed a carbon nanotube knife that, in theory, would work like a tight-wire cheese slicer. In a paper presented this month at the 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition*, the research team announced a prototype nanoknife that could, in the future, become a tabletop tool of biology, allowing scientists to cut and study cells more precisely than they can today. Thanks to an anonymous reader who reminded me about this item. Comment/Join this discussion ( 3 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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