Leigh's Demon

liorean

02-01-2007, 08:17 PM

Interesting device. Chemical devices like these, channel proteins and active transport proteins are used everywhere in nature. Creating energy gradients is the basic working mechanism of life. Now these scientists have managed to make a machine doing the same thing:
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Troy297

02-02-2007, 02:18 AM

Ya I read about that from a link off sympatico... but I didn't quite get it - too technologically advanced for me I guess... anyways... the link is: http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-01-31T180235Z_01_L31307724_RTRIDST_0_TECH-BRITAIN-NANOMACHINE-COL.XML

daniel_g

02-02-2007, 10:52 PM

Hmmm, so does that mean that in the future we could have plastic plants actually producing oxygen?