Comments on: nanotube sheets http://globalspin.com/2005/08/nanotube-sheets/ a glimpse into the tiny mind of Chris Radcliff Sat, 01 May 2010 03:53:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: Karen http://globalspin.com/2005/08/nanotube-sheets/comment-page-1/#comment-817 Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:09:23 +0000 http://globalspin.com/wp/2005/08/25/625/#comment-817 Keen. It’s nice to see some new material being made from a technology that’s been praised and nearly beatified but not, to my knowledge, used in a lot of practical application. Besides, I love the idea of spinning it: you could then produce an incredibly thin knit fabric (don’t laugh!) that is strong and stretchy, too. Spacesuits? Artifical hearts? Diving equipment? All you’d need is to make sure the spaces in the stretched material were smaller than an oxygen molecule, right?

And high-speed trains. Ooo. Utilize the research on the bird- or insect-like flight but you wouldn’t need it to be small or superlight, because it would still be resting on the ground (or hovering above the rails).

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