If this becomes popular, then some future health and diet doctor is going to do a PBS special where he explains to the crowd that eating X causes knots in your molecules, but eating Y will straighten them out. The camera will pan through the crowd to show us nods from the heads of people who are thinking roughly: "Knots are bad; I knew it. This makes so much sense."
> "For example, bullet-proof vests and body armor are made of kevlar, a plastic that consists of rigid molecular rods aligned in a parallel structure – however, interweaving polymer strands have the potential to create much tougher, lighter and more flexible materials in the same way that weaving threads does in our everyday world."
This is an interesting paper. While it may feel like it isn't new, anyone who follows nanotechnology and writers like K. Eric Drexler will know this level of construction is yet another rung in the ladder, another step on the road to ubiquitous nanotech.
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