All we need now is a nanocable guy
Researchers have made a miniature, mulitlayer wire less than 50 nanometers in diameter.
References:
Zhang, Y., et al. 1998. Coaxial nanocable: Silicon carbide and silicon oxide sheathed with boron nitride and carbon. Science 281(Aug. 14):973.
Sources:
Yuegang Zhang
NEC Corporation
Fundamental Research Laboratories
34 Miyukigaoka
Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8501
Japan
From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 14, October 3, 1998,
p. 216.
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