Using polymer blends, scientists rapidly generated highly ordered patterns that could be used in the fabrication of microelectronics, antireflective surfaces, magnetic data storage sy... Read more
Expanding polymer enables self-folding without heating or immersion in water. As 3-D printing has become a mainstream technology, industry and academic researchers have been investigating pr... Read more
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Peking University have found a new use for the ubiquitous PowerPoint slide: The technique involves projecting a grayscale pattern of li... Read more
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that uses light to get two-dimensional (2-D) plastic sheets to curve into three-dimensional (3-D) structures, such a... Read more
New technique leverages controlled interactions across surfaces to create self-assembled materials with unprecedented complexity Building nanomaterials with features spanning just billionths... Read more
Brookhaven Lab scientists discover a way to create billionth-of-a-meter structures that snap together in complex patterns with unprecedented efficiency To continue advancing, next-generation... Read more
Taking a page from Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”, a team of scientists has created malleable and microscopic self-assembling particles that can serve as the next generation of buildi... Read more
Motor vehicles were created in the 19th century as an efficient mode of transportation. As useful as they’ve proven to be, cars do not manufacture themselves, nor is it inexpensive to build... Read more
Harvard researchers design a tunable, self actuated 3-D material Imagine a house that could fit in a backpack or a wall that could become a window with the flick of a switch. Harvard researc... Read more
In the nanoworld, tiny particles of gold can operate like snow blowers, churning through surface layers of an important class of semiconductors to dig unerringly straight paths. The surprisi... Read more
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have developed a way of assembling organic molecules into complex tubular tissue-like structures without the use of moulds or techniques... Read more
X-ray Studies at SLAC’s Synchrotron Pave the Way for Better Methods to Convert Sunlight to Electricity A new material design tested in experiments at the Department of Energy’s SLAC Na... Read more
The days of self-assembling nanoparticles taking hours to form a film over a microscopic-sized wafer are over. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley Nation... Read more
Imagine a tower builds itself into the desired structure only by choosing the appropriate bricks. Absurd – and however, in the nano world this is reality: There an unordered crowd of compone... Read more
New method could help to reconnect injured organs or build functional human tissues from the ground up A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Ha... Read more
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