The art of molecular carpet-weaving
Even the costliest oriental carpets have small mistakes. It is said that pious carpet-weavers deliberately include tiny mistakes in their fine carpets, because only God has the right to be immaculate. Molecular carpets, as the nanotechnology industry would like to have them are as yet in no danger of offending the gods. Source: Technische Universitaet Muenchen - Discipline: Materials Science...
Source: LabSpaces - Thursday, 29 December
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