Nanotechnology/Micromachines

Credit: Chen Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Metallurgists have all kinds of ways to make a chunk of metal harder. They can bend it, twist it, run it between two rollers or pound it with a hammer. These methods work…

Physicists from Göttingen first to succeed in filming a phase transition with extremely high spatial and temporal resolutionCredit: Dr Murat Sivis Laser beams can be used to change the properties of materials in an extremely…

Credit: LI Sushuang Nanofiltration (NF) is an advanced technology for treating wastewater containing organic micropollutants (OMPs). Recently, a research group led by Prof. WAN Yinhua from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the…

The newly developed shape memory polymer resist which allows for high-resolution 4D printing, promises a platform for information hiding for optical anti-counterfeiting and tunable photonic devicesCredit: SUTD The Singapore University…

Credit: NIST It's cool to be small. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have miniaturized the optical components required to cool atoms down to a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero,…

A cascaded dual deformable phase plate wavefront modulator enables direct AO integration with existing microscopes--doubling the aberration correction range and greatly improving image qualityCredit: SPIE Microscopy is the…

Credit: Hurt lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- When sheets of two-dimensional nanomaterials like graphene are stacked on top of each other, tiny gaps form between the sheets that have a wide variety of potential uses. In…

Credit: POSTECH Despite the anticounterfeiting devices attached to luxury handbags, marketable securities, and identification cards, counterfeit goods are on the rise. There is a demand for the next-generation anticounterfeiting…

Researchers demonstrate automated drone landing using 2D camera-based symbol detection, with potential applications in rescue missionsCredit: Malik Demirhan and Chinthaka Premachandra in "Development of an Automated Camera-Based Drone…

If these hollow capsules are modified to target a solid tumor, PET imaging and therapeutic ultrasound can be used to rupture them and release an anticancer drug at ground zero.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of…

Scientists at the University of Tsukuba combine scanning tunneling microscopy with ultrafast spectroscopy to image the motion of electrons with unprecedented resolution, which may lead to advances in semiconductors and…

Credit: Video credit belongs to the American Chemical Society. Robots are widely used to build cars, paint airplanes and sew clothing in factories, but the assembly of microscopic components, such as those for biomedical…

First-ever atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real timeCredit: © 2021 American Chemical Society Two novel techniques, atomic-resolution real-time video and conical carbon nanotube confinement, allow researchers…

Credit: Authors In a paper published in NANO, researchers from Hubei, China discuss the top-down and bottom-up strategies for the synthesis of Graphene quantum dots (GQDs). The respective advantages and disadvantages of these methods…

Credit: Yubo Wang, Takuya Yamamoto Hokkaido University scientists have found a way to prevent gold nanoparticles from clumping, which could help towards their use as an anti-cancer therapy. Attaching ring-shaped synthetic compounds…

Researchers develop a mathematical model to explain the complex architecture of termite moundsCredit: (Image courtesy of Guy Theraulaz/Harvard SEAS) Following a series of studies on termite mound physiology and morphogenesis over…

Rice model may lead to better materials for aerospace, automotive, medical applicationsCredit: Illustration by Evgeni Penev/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 19, 2021) - Carbon nanotube fibers are not nearly as strong as the…

The ester bond direction in liquid crystal dimers impacts the helical pitch in the twist-bend nematic phaseCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Overview: A team of researchers led by…

Unique in Canada, the Advanced Laser Light Source Laboratory (ALLS) of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has begun upgrading the power of its lasers in early 2020. Under the responsibility of Professor François…

Fabricating nanoelectronic circuits of the future just got a lot more interesting, thanks to DNA origamiCredit: Lior Shani, Philip Tinnefeld, Yafit Fleger, Amos Sharoni, Boris Shapiro, Avner Shaulov, Oleg Gang, and Yosef Yeshurun …