Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines

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Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/...91207131607.htm


ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2009) — Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation of famous Casimir forces that took place at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory.
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