NANO Technology on Verge of Commercial Breakthrough

Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! Nano technology appears ready for it's Close-Up...

Nanotechnologists at the University of Texas at Dallas and their colleagues in Australia (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) are now able to produce transparent sheets of carbon nanotubes that are stronger than the strongest steel sheets. Exactly how strong that is I do not know, but it's gotta be pretty strong!

But what's even more amazing is they can produce 2-inch wide strips of the stuff at a rate of about seven yards per minute. Commercially, wool is produced at around 20 yards per minute, maybe a little faster. That means the stuff will be easy to scale up or down, be easy to test for different uses and able to be mass produced with ease.
Because it is so fast, easy and relatively cheap to make the new transparent nano tech material is already being considered for many commercial applications such as solar cells, flat screen displays and video recorders.

Ray Baughman, director of the University of Texas at Dallas NanoTech Institute suggests windows made with carbon nanotubes could serve as heating elements and antennas. Other applications the researchers are exploring include high-strength composites, super-capacitors, batteries, fuel cells and thermal-energy harvesting cells.
By far the most excited use for the new nano-stuff has to be artificial muscles. Perhaps by combining Muscle Wires (Mondotronics.com) with this new nano-sheeting, artificial limbs can finally make the leap into the 21st Century.

Let me know if you think of any other uses for this amazing stuff, but try to keep the techno-babble to a minimum. I'm not as smart as I pretend to be.