Nanotechnology/Micromachines

Russian and Chinese scientists to create prototype sensors for electronics of the latest generation.Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Russian and Chinese scientists to create prototype sensors for…
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McMaster researchers aggregate trillions of phages into new formCredit: JD Howell, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON July 25, 2019 - McMaster researchers have developed a novel new gel made entirely from bacteria-killing…
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Caltech researchers demonstrate a robotic platform for delivering drugs in the human bodyCredit: Caltech Targeting medical treatment to an ailing body part is a practice as old as medicine itself. A Band-Aid is placed on a skinned…
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The future of faster, more efficient information processing may come down to light rather than electricity. Mark Lawrence, a postdoctoral scholar in materials science and engineering at Stanford, has moved a step closer to this future…
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From modifying gene expression to cell signaling, dynamic designer proteins may usher in a new era of synthetic biologyCredit: UW Medicine Scientists have created the first completely artificial protein switch that can work inside…
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Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2019, 10.1021/acsnano.9b03218 Most people take speech for granted, but it's actually a complex process that involves both motions of the mouth and vibrations of folded tissues, called vocal cords,…
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Chemists at Kiel University built the first artificial molecular machines that performs synthesisCredit: Rainer Herges Chemists usually synthesize molecules using stochastic bond-forming collisions of the reactant molecules in…
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Credit: © University of Vienna, created by Jon Ladrón de Guevara Whether it is pigeons in the air, electrons in a telegraph wire, radio waves from a cell phone or single photons in an optical fiber, in standard communication, there…
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The distribution of light polarisation in space turned out to be similar to the three-coloured rapana.Credit: © Nature Nanotechnology In every modern microcircuit hidden inside a laptop or smartphone, you can see transistors -…
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Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine A new study using a special type of electron microscope using samples cooled to extremely cold temperatures provides critical information for drug developers…
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Credit: City University of Hong Kong Transporting droplets on solid surfaces at high speed and long distance, even against gravity, without additional force has been a formidable task. But a research team comprising scientists from City…
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Credit: Burrus/NIST Showcasing precise control at the quantum level, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method for making an ion (electrically charged atom) display exact…
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Computer simulations using models based on real-world atomic structures from microscope observations shed new light on the reaction pathways in fuel cellsCredit: Michihisa Koyama, Kyushu University Simulations from researchers in…
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Credit: OIST After several years of theorizing and experimenting, an international team of researchers including scientists at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has finally succeeded in measuring how…
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