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NanoCar
The NanoCar runs using solar cells mounted
on the vehicle. The collected energy is delivered to the car's
nano-batteries or to its electrostatic motor when the car is
running. The electrostatic motor weighs less than 5 ng (nanograms
- 1 billionth of a gram). Speed and directional control is affected
using a built inon-board neural-net.
The NanoCar body is made of lightweight,
state-of-the-art materials called carbon nanotubes. NanoCars
use electrostatic regenerative disc brakes and utilize rack
and pinion steering which are attached to the steering arms
by means of tie rods.
NanoCar wheels designs are similar to bicycle tires. The wheel's
rim and hubs are buckeydisks and the spokes are made of nanotubes
covered with adipose stem cells to increase aerodynamic efficiency.
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NanoCar in Motion
This fully functioning automobile is one
billionth the size of a regular automobile. The absolute details
of the NanoCar are impossible to discern from this photograph
since the photo was made using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope
(STM) which can only offer an approximate picture of the car at
nano-scale dimensions.
The atoms and nano-structures that make up the car can only beviewed
"probabilistically" since they exist in quantum states
which vary from one moment to the next.
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NanoCar Windshield
This is a 6" plastic wafer with
over 34.2 million nano-windshields (organized as 342 groups
of 100k windshields) for the NanoCar. Using their proprietary
ultra low temperature semiconductor processing technique, FlexICs
is able to fabricate the base windshield by laying down arrays
of polysilicon transistors on clear plastic. Organic light emitting
diodes (OLEDs) are layered on top of the polysilicon matrix
resulting in a full color, high resolution heads-up display
seamlessly integrated into the windshield. As an added step,
resistive heaters are embedded in the windshield to enable rapid
evaporation of of any condensation that may form on the NanoCar
during operation.
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NanoCorinthian Leather
Atomic image by Transmission Electron
Microscopy (TEM) of the faux nano-Corinthian leather showing
the fine stacking faults and dislocations that make for a smooth
ride.
Atomic scale TEM photo of recrystallized amorphous GaAs by Steve
Jurvetson, 1986.
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