Nanotubes melt and guide metals
Vik writes "This story in New Scientist describes how electrically-heated nanotubes have been made to accurately ferry molten metal around, in theory allowing the soldering of nanoscale metal parts. A variety of metals have been used, and there is an interesting possibility that this technique could be used to make crude nanotube structures that can weld themselves together."
April 30th, 2004 at 10:50 AM
Amazing
That is really amazing. I'm very cynical whenever anyone mentions anything like an 'accelerating rate of change', but many technologies needed for molecular manufacturing really do seem to be showing up.
I do wish the article had more details on their 'nano-manipulator'. Are they really applying voltage to just a single nano-tube, or are they using many tubes and averaging the results?