• Question: would nano particles help in making a more powerful computer? by powerful do you mean speed, storage, features...?

    Asked by anisha161 to Austin, Kirsty, Nicola, Nike, Sarah on 21 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by sulumbreezy, marias, bronteappleby.
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      Kirsty Ross answered on 21 Jun 2012:

      Nano particles might be useful in the next generation of computers, as a lot of work is going in to developing organic computers and computers operated using light .Both of these methods will probably rely on using parts that are on the nanometre scale, such as proteins, DNA and quanta (packets) of light.

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      Nike Dattani answered on 21 Jun 2012:

      Yes, nano particles such as FULLERENES (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene) can help make more powerful computers. By more powerful, I mean computers that are MUCH faster while still the same size. They’d also be able to store more information. They’d also be able to solve problems that would take “classical computers” longer than the age of the universe to solve. Check out this video !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyX8E4KUkWw

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