Nano Car Wins Prize

Computerworld published an article today describing the latest nanotechnology, cars. James Tour, a chemistry professor at Rice University, won the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for creating a nanocar, just 4 nm wide. It has rotating wheels and a working suspension. Read the complete article here.

The article has several interesting items including the fact that the car contains just 60 carbon atoms. The entire width of the "car" is 4 nanometers, which is about 10 times smaller than the features in Intel's latest microprocessors (45 nm). Professor Tour also indicated they did not see any point in patenting the technology because, "by the time it could be used to make money, the patents would be expired."

Interesting.