Nano technology is starting to get exciting and the potential for applications is endless.  Here is an incredible look into the future of frictionless surfaces:

For the first time, researchers in the US have made friction almost completely vanish between two surfaces at the nanoscale. The discovery paves the way for engineering surfaces that can slide past each other with virtually no resistance, and could hugely advance the development of nanomachines.

Ordinarily, friction exists wherever two surfaces meet – whether that’s car tyres on a road or a protein flowing through a blood stream. But there’s a phenomenon known as ‘superlubricity’ where friction almost entirely disappears, and this is what scientists have now managed to recreate by carefully tuning the spacing of individual atoms on a surface.

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