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Berkeley Scientists Develop Self-Assembling Nanorods

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday February 1, 2012 @09:23PM from the out-of-the-lab dept.

First time accepted submitter techgeek0279 writes "Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a relatively fast, easy and inexpensive technique for inducing nanorods to self-assemble into one-, two- and even three-dimensional macroscopic structures."

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Oh god by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-01 21:26 · Score: 0, Funny

That's it, we're doomed!
1. Re:Oh god by VortexCortex · 2012-02-01 21:35 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  That's it, we're doomed!
  Yeah, whew! I thought it said "Nanodroids" too.
Old by goldaryn · 2012-02-01 22:20 · Score: 5, Funny

I've been turning a nanorod into a three dimensional structure for years.

Haven't yet worked out how to make it visible to the naked eye, though.
1. Re:Old by macraig · 2012-02-01 22:37 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Haven't yet worked out how to make it visible to the naked eye, though.
  That's what she said!
no worries by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-01 23:00 · Score: 0, Funny

hope they'll run out of IP addresses before they run over the world :D