Dendrimers:Nanotube Neural Networks?

From: sanman (manofsan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/18/04

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    Here's an article on how nanotubes can be grown off dendrimers:

    http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/507134/

    So this is beginning to look like the makings of neuronal-type
    arrangements. Since nanotubes are strong, stiff, flexible, etc, why
    keep them confined to a 2D-wafer surface for forming circuits?

    Perhaps nanotubes are the ideal connectors for forming circuits in 3D.
    Perhaps the nanotube strength could allow for them to be suspended in
    a liquid or gel medium with lesser support, instead of embedded into a
    solid matrix. That liquid or gel medium might then permit some kind of
    transport of molecules through it to the nanotube/dendrimer network.
    Hmm, perhaps eventually emulating something vaguely resembling the
    neurochemistry of biological systems?

    Comments?

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