X-Message-Number: 12946 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:50:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Skrecky <> Subject: Nanotweezers for the New Millenium 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." _____________________________________________ My thought is that a mechanical computer could soon be built with nanotweezer equiped nanorobots manipulating a nano-abbacus with nanobeads. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12946