Re: Scientists Create And Manipulate Nanoscale "Water Wires"

From: Uncle Al (UncleAl0_at_hate.spam.net)
Date: 06/05/04 

Date: 5 Jun 2004 20:54:54 GMT

Neutron wrote:
>
> Scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven
> National Laboratory have caused tiny strands of water, each less than
> one nanometer (a billionth of a meter) in width, to form inside a
> common mineral. These nanoscale "water wires" give the scientists a
> new opportunity to study the properties of very small quantities of
> water, such as that found inside cells, which behave differently than
> water at the macro-scale....
> Full article: http://www.physorg.com/news148.html
>
> I guess we all here will be happy when water nanotransistor appears!
> ;-)

   1) Molecular sieves have tunnels of those dimensions without
alteration at ambient conditions.
   2) If you actually read the article, you see it is merely one more
least-publishable byte.

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