       Comments     Threshold   By Diesel Donkey on 1/25/2008
4:37:14 PM , Rating: 2 I would think that finding the material
with the right strength vs flexing properties and channels of
the correct widths on the order of tens of nanometers might be
kind of hard to come by. Coming up with the basic idea behind
the process may be simple, but actually making it work is, I'm
sure, orders of magnitude more difficult.  By MatthiasF on
1/25/2008 5:20:49 PM , Rating: 3 Right, so it just happens that
the exact material found to have these qualifications is PEG,
one of the most used emulsifying agents on the planet (makeup,
synthetic motor oil, paint balls, hand lotion, even food).
Doubtful. It's more likely that the scientist was talking up the
discovery by explaining it in grandious language to make it seem
more fantastic.  I wouldn't be surprised if others have already
done the same thing, but they just don't have a well tuned
nationalist PR system like South Korea hyping it.   Related
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