Weblogs: Buckypaper and the end of print literature
(Science Daily via Scribal Terror via Unlocked Wordhoard)
"[O]ne of the potential uses for buckypaper [...] was to make buckybooks (sorry, I have no link -- I heard this long ago). The idea, as I remember it, was to have paper made entirely of buckyballs that were dark on one side and light on the other. The 'off' setting for the balls would be for the light side to be facing out. When current was run through the buckyballs, they would flip over so that the dark side was showing. By selectively turning some on and turning some off, you could create writing on the page (much as a marquee sign does by turning lights on and off)."
posted by Twerpette @ 6:39 PM
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2 Comments:
Scott (at Wordhoard) was actually thinking of smart paper, not buckypaper, which is a different thing. That doesn't change the whole "end of print literature" thing though. Just the name of the substance was wrong.
That's true, and would be evident in a full read of the sources (which I try to always support with links). However Blogger has citation length limits so I excerpted the key bits IMO.
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