A million functional microscopic robots produced from a 4-inch silicon wafer in new nanofabrication process developed by engineers at the University of Pennsylvania Researchers have harnesse... Read more
A new and extremely sensitive method of measuring ultrasound could revolutionise everything from medical devices to unmanned vehicles. Researchers at The University of Queensland have combin... Read more
Technique from MIT could lead to tiny, self-powered devices for environmental, industrial, or medical monitoring. Tiny robots no bigger than a cell could be mass-produced using a new method... Read more
Harvard researchers have developed a lightweight, portable nanofiber fabrication device that could one day be used to dress wounds on a battlefield or dress shoppers in customizable fabrics.... Read more
Method to stack hundreds of nanoscale layers could open new vistas in materials science. Adapting an old trick used for centuries by both metalsmiths and pastry makers, a team of researchers... Read more
A finding by a University of Central Florida researcher that unlocks a means of controlling materials at the nanoscale and opens the door to a new generation of manufacturing is featured on... Read more
Scientists at Rice University have discovered that the strong force field emitted by a Tesla coil causes carbon nanotubes to self-assemble into long wires, a phenomenon they call “Teslaphore... Read more
What does it take to fabricate electronic and medical devices tinier than a fraction of a human hair? Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego recently invented a new method... Read more
A surprising low-tech tool—Scotch Magic tape—was one of the keys to the discovery An international group of researchers from the University of Minnesota, Argonne National Laboratory and Seou... Read more