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Nano-Sized Light Mill Drives Micro-Sized Disk
While those wonderful light sabers in the Star Wars films remain the figment of George Lucas' fertile imagination, light mills -- rotary motors driven by light -- that can power objects thousands of times greater in size are now fact.
New Adhesive for Tape, Label Industry, Developed
An incidental discovery in a wood products lab at Oregon State University has produced a new pressure-sensitive adhesive that may revolutionize the tape industry -- an environmentally benign product that works very well and costs much less than existing adhesives based on petrochemicals.
Berkeley Lab Scientist Designs Self-Assembling Composite Materials At Nanometer Scale
Nature has used self-assembling materials for structures measured in nanometers (billionths of a meter) for hundreds of millions of years -- as components of living cells -- but human attempts at nanoscale manufacture have been confined mostly to building structural materials a few atoms or molecules at a time. That state of affairs may be on the verge of change.
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