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Towards the end of the article, it suggests dissipationless power lines as an application.

Whether "dissipationless" is equivalent to "superconducting" I'm not sure; but it sounds the same to me ;)

I presume another application could be higher density electronics owing to reduced heat generation owing to reduced dissipation. However, if I recall comments here correctly we are getting to the point where electromagnetic shielding may be required as we scale down further which provides a second limiting factor to increased densities.

PS. Last year ETH Zurich also looked at weaving nanothreads in a kagome pattern, https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2017/08... ... note also that this style of weaving is widespread across all of continental Southeast Asia, at least southwest China, Vietnam, Philippines, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar and probably further west in South Asia. It is real a shame that a lot of terminology falls in to the "some random American saw a Japanese name for something so it is termed Japanese in English" category (eg. various food ingredients, philosophical concepts, art history, etc.). People could learn a lot more if they had broader regional comprehension of Asia and its history.

It isn't like those sorts of inaccuracies are unique to Asia. "Danish" pastries are called "Vienna bread" in Denmark because they weren't introduced to Denmark until an influx of foreign bakers caused by the Danish baker's union going on strike.

I bet they regretted that strike :)

The fact that the only thing I can contribute is 'this is really cool' is humbling/frustrating/limiting but really well done to this team.

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