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Scientists claim to have tied the most tightly knotted physical structure known
- baobrain 10y agohttp://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6321/159.full http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6321/159.full Here's the full text of the paper
- jimmytidey 10y agoYour headphones 10 minutes after you put them in your pocket?
- skadamou 10y agoThis is knot news
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 10y agoIf this becomes popular, then some future health and diet doctor is going to do a PBS special where he explains to the crowd that eating X causes knots in your molecules, but eating Y will straighten them out. The camera will pan through the crowd to show us nods from the heads of people who are thinking roughly: "Knots are bad; I knew it. This makes so much sense."
- Eyes 10y agoGet us to Mars please....
- lawless123 10y agoWhat would the material be like if they linked loads of those together like chain mail?
- mseebach 10y ago> "For example, bullet-proof vests and body armor are made of kevlar, a plastic that consists of rigid molecular rods aligned in a parallel structure – however, interweaving polymer strands have the potential to create much tougher, lighter and more flexible materials in the same way that weaving threads does in our everyday world."
- sk1zzyk1d 10y agoThis is an interesting paper. While it may feel like it isn't new, anyone who follows nanotechnology and writers like K. Eric Drexler will know this level of construction is yet another rung in the ladder, another step on the road to ubiquitous nanotech.