The state of the art is perhaps analogous to the period when scribes had to know as much about making ink or baking clay as they did about writing.

这种现状或许与抄写员在书写时，必须知道如何制造墨水或者烘烤粘土的时代类似吧。

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As Dr Cui explains in a recent issue of nano Letters, when the ink dries, the nanotubes bind to the mesh of fibres in the fabric (it works for both cotton and polyester), making it conductive.

正如崔博士在最近一期《纳米快报》上解释的那样，当墨水干掉时，纳米管会与这种布料中纤维网结合在一起(对于棉质和聚酯纤维同样适用)，从而导电。

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The trick was to reduce the size of the ink molecules, making it easier to simply wipe away.

而其中的诀窍就是将墨水分子减小，使其变得容易擦除。

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The quarter-inch thick device, built by the publisher Hearst, features electronic ink mounted on a flexible microfoil and an 11.5-inch screen, making it the biggest, thinnest e-reader yet.

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E-Ink (an MIT spinoff) and Gyricon (a Xerox Palo Alto Research Center spinoff) are making similar products but with a less efficient process.

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