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January 25th, 2010, 15:20
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Drag racing and nanotech seemingly go together like peanut butter and... very small rocks, but that hasn't stopped a team of researchers at Rice University (http://www.engadget.com/tag/riceuniversity) from creating a microscopic car dubbed a "nanodragster." Its wheels are buckeyballs, the rear composed of 60 carbon atoms each, while its front wheels are made of p-carborane. This gives the car more grip at the back, meaning it'll pop wheelies just like a real dragster -- though only when running on a road paved with gold. Even then it doesn't go very fast, just .0005 inches per hour, meaning for those 1,327,000 days it takes to cover a quarter-mile its driver is free.Rice Univerity nanodragster rolls on carbon buckeyball wheels, lives life .0005 inch at a time (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/rice-univerity-nanodragster-rolls-on-carbon-buckeyball-wheels-l/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Drag racing and nanotech seemingly go together like peanut butter and... very small rocks, but that hasn't stopped a team of researchers at Rice University (http://www.engadget.com/tag/riceuniversity) from creating a microscopic car dubbed a "nanodragster." Its wheels are buckeyballs, the rear composed of 60 carbon atoms each, while its front wheels are made of p-carborane. This gives the car more grip at the back, meaning it'll pop wheelies just like a real dragster -- though only when running on a road paved with gold. Even then it doesn't go very fast, just .0005 inches per hour, meaning for those 1,327,000 days it takes to cover a quarter-mile its driver is free.Rice Univerity nanodragster rolls on carbon buckeyball wheels, lives life .0005 inch at a time (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/rice-univerity-nanodragster-rolls-on-carbon-buckeyball-wheels-l/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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