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Floor Covering Media found a press release, recently posted at ScienceDaily.com, about nanotechnology and the art of molecular carpet-weaving.  This press release, written by their staff, informs readers stable two-dimensional networks of organic molecules are important components in various nanotechnology processes.  However, producing these networks, which are only one atom thick, in high quality and with the greatest possible stability currently still poses a great challenge. Scientists from the Excellence Cluster Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) have successfully created just such networks; made of boron acid molecules. The current issue of the scientific journal ACSnano reports on their results.  Even the costliest oriental carpets have small mistakes.  It is said that pious carpet-weavers deliberately include tiny mistakes in their fine carpets, because only God has the right to be immaculate.  Molecular carpets, as the nanotechnology industry would like to have them, are as yet in no danger of offending the gods.  A team of physicists, headed by Dr. Markus Lackinger from the Technische Universität München (TUM) and Professor Thomas Bein from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), has now developed a process by which they can build up high-quality polymer networks using boron acid components; according to the press release.  More at ScienceDaily.com.

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