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Self-assembling 3D Nanostructures
Roland Piquepaille writes "Chips holding 10 terabits of data? Copper as strong as steel? Ceramics tough enough to be used in car engines? All this will be true in five years, thanks to two new methods to create self-assembling 3D nanostructures. These methods used pulsed laser deposition to create layers of nanodots organized in a matrix. These arrays of nanodots are consistent in shape and size -- 7 nanometers with nickel for example. But the real beauty of these methods is that they can be applied to almost any material, like nickel for data storage or aluminum oxide for ceramics. These methods also reduce drastically imperfections, leading to future superstrong materials. Read more here for other details and an image of a single nickel nanocrystal, or nanodot."
Roland Piquepaille is a blogspammer, every day for over a week now, we've had his rehashings of old stories posted on the frontpage. Don't click on the first and the last link in the story.
I haven't RTFA, but ceramics are already used in certain motorcycle engines.
but, of course, what do you know. you're just some dork spouting off about elves on slashdot.
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The space elivator project needs materials strong enough to with stand the tension of its own weight, and we already have carbon nano fibers that provide 60-70% of the strength needed to make it a reality. If this new technique can get us to the magic strength, we are probably in the threashhold of a new era.
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Isn't bits generally used for data transfer, rather than storage, which is generally bytes?
Not quite so simple.
Bits is generally used for the raw basic capability. No provisions for framing, error detection or correction.
Bytes are generally used for 8 bits of usable information. This is measured after the framing, error detection/correction etc.
Bandwidth caps are related to data transfer, but probably expressed in bytes instead of bits.
Memory chip capacity probably expressed in bits. Memory stick capacity probably expressed in bytes, and usually be less than the corresponding number of bits in the chips.
Disk capacity probably expressed in bytes, but there is a significant difference between raw unformatted capacity and the formatted capacity. The difference is furthered by reserving alternate sectors so the disk behaves as if it were error free.
Lol, how is this redundant? It's a fricken joke you idiot moderators.
Ok, how is this in ANY WAY a troll? Who am I trolling? It's an obvious joke taken from the Terminator...if you guys can't get that it was suppose to be funny and NOT a troll, don't mod it at all...just ignore it.
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I had known this for months.
If you really want to be up to date in nano, check out news.nanoapex.com.
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Executive summary: Bits and bytes are like centimeters and meters. They're different scales of the same thing, and whether you use one or the other is dictated partly by which is appropriate to the magnitude of the value being expressed and partly by tradition.