Nanotechnology Produces Nanoscale Wireless Voltmeter


	Nanotechnology Produces Nanoscale Wireless Voltmeter

Mohir

12-4-2007 8:20 AM

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 The device has a spherical shape, is about 30 nanometers in diameter, and compared to the currently existing voltmeters is about 1,000 time smaller; also, unlike other electronic devices which need constant power to work, 
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			it is powered by light. This could be probably used to probe the electrical fields inside a living cell, and measure the voltage of the surrounding cells, but not the one inside the cell.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nanotechnology-Produces-Nanoscale-Wireless-Voltmeter-72679.shtml"><DIV>
 The discovery of such a powerful electric field inside living cells came as a shock for scientists studying this domain.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/71D43753-8821-40F3-8506-EFEEA8A5E8AB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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