Colloidal silver is a solution of submicroscopic particles of pure silver suspended in water by an electric charge on each particle.

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Von Ehr hopes to be the first entrepreneur to start selling submicroscopic robots that can fabricate from any combination of molecules a limitless array of superior materials maybe even hardwood.

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By coating the carbon anode of a LiIon battery with a tangle of these submicroscopic silicon nanowires a battery can store more lithium without cracking or degrading after hundreds of charge cycles.

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