This is pretty exciting, and the applications are almost unlimited, and many of them highly marketable. Athletics clothing alone is billions of dollars around t

This is pretty exciting, and the applications are almost unlimited, and many of them highly marketable. Athletics clothing alone is billions of dollars around the world, but this a key too: ""But before we can put these nanorods to good use, we need to be able to control and perfect their size and shape," added Nune, the paper's other corresponding author." It seems to me that could be a long process, along with the challenges of scaling up manufacturing. Still, at some point, this is going to be a very useful material.