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Carbon nanotubes used to make batteries from fabrics
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Ordinary cotton and polyester fabrics have been turned into batteries that retain their flexibility.
The demonstration is a boost to the nascent field of “wearable electronics” in which devices are integrated into clothing and textiles.
The approach is based on dipping fabrics in an “ink” of tiny tubes of carbon, and was first demonstrated last [...]
New Memory Material May Hold Data For One Billion Years
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Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton. The denser you pack, the quicker it spoils. The 10 to 100 gigabits of data per square inch on today’s memory cards has an estimated [...]










































