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New Concept for Self-Assembling Mobile Micromachines

Linda Behringer, Max Planck Institute — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:30:58 +0000

In the future, designers of micromachines can utilize a new effect. A team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in...

Household Ingredients Rich in Sodium Help Grow Carbon Nanotubes

Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 13:56:23 +0000

Baking soda, table salt, and detergent are surprisingly effective ingredients for cooking up carbon nanotubes, researchers at MIT have found. In a study published this...

New Study Solves Longstanding Nanowire Mystery

Bill Hathaway, Yale University — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:40:52 +0000

Deep in the ocean or underground, where there is no oxygen, Geobacter bacteria “breathe” by projecting tiny protein filaments called “nanowires” into the soil, to...

New Process Allows Scientists To Mold Metal At The Nanoscale

William Weir, Yale University — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 01:50:43 +0000

Numerous metals and alloys would be ideal for specific nanoscale applications — from solar energy to microelectronics — but accurately molding metals into such minuscule...

Physicists Record Temporal Coherence of a Graphene Qubit

Rob Matheson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 15:51:06 +0000

For the first time, researchers from MIT and elsewhere have recorded the “temporal coherence” of a graphene qubit — that is, how long it can...

Borophene Breakthrough Provides New Insight Into a Promising Material

Jon Atherton, Yale University — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:51:59 +0000

The thinnest flake, just one atom thick, has provided scientists at Yale and the Brookhaven National Laboratory with new insight into a promising material for...

Innovative Approach to Controlling Magnetism Opens Route to Ultra-Low-Power Microchips

David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 14:22:50 +0000

A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically less power than...

New Polymer Material Uses Carbon Dioxide to Self‐Repair

David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:13:32 +0000

A material designed by MIT chemical engineers can react with carbon dioxide from the air, to grow, strengthen, and even repair itself. The polymer, which...

Swarms of Nanomachines Could Improve the Efficiency of Any Machine

Thomas Klein, University of Luxembourg — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 13:36:25 +0000

The research team of Prof. Massimiliano Esposito of the University of Luxembourg studied the thermodynamics of small nanomachines. All machines convert one form of energy...

Physicists Manipulate and Control Individual Molecules

Chris Melvin, University of Bath — Sun, 09 Sep 2018 11:39:10 +0000

A new technique will open up research possibilities across the fields of nanoscience and nanophysics. Physicists at the University of Bath have discovered how to...

Engineers Develop a New Propulsion System for Nanosatellites

Olga Buhner, Samara University — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 14:51:28 +0000

The scientists of the Inter-University Department of Space Research of Samara University presented a prototype of a propulsion system for the maneuvering nanosatellite SamSat-M. The...

New Technique Allows Engineers To 3D Print Colloidal Crystals

Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 14:34:20 +0000

MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique, which they highlight today in the journal Advanced Materials. By...

Cannibalistic Materials Spontaneously Form New Nanostructures

Dawn Levy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 14:21:28 +0000

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic “building blocks” from which stable structures...

Researchers Develop A Novel Nanoactuator System

Jussi Toppari, University of Jyväskylä — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:58:59 +0000

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) and the University of Tampere (Finland) together with BioNavis Ltd (Finland) have developed a novel nanoactuator system, where...

Scientists Reveal Mechanism That Helps Malaria Parasites Take Over Blood Cells

Meghan Steele Horan, University of California - Los Angeles — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:43:30 +0000

Researchers from UCLA and Washington University in St. Louis have discovered the previously unknown mechanism of how proteins from Plasmodium parasites — which cause malaria...

Engineers Incorporate Optoelectronic Diodes Into Washable Fabrics

David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:52:50 +0000

The latest development in textiles and fibers is a kind of soft hardware that you can wear: cloth that has electronic devices built right into...

Scientists Toughening Graphene by Integrating Carbon Nanotubes

Mike Williams, Rice University — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 15:06:10 +0000

Rice University researchers have found that fracture-resistant “rebar graphene” is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene. Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon....

On-Chip Optical Filter Provides Cheaper Alternative to “Broadband” Filters

Rob Matheson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 14:16:08 +0000

Silicon-based system offers smaller, cheaper alternative to other “broadband” filters; could improve a variety of photonic devices. MIT researchers have designed an optical filter on...

Scientists Create Smallest Robots Yet That Can Sense Their Environment

David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:27:12 +0000

Researchers at MIT have created what may be the smallest robots yet that can sense their environment, store data, and even carry out computational tasks....

MIT Engineered Nanoparticles Boost Immune Cells

Anne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 12:45:02 +0000

Programming the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells has had promising results for treating blood cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia. This tactic has...

Kirigami-Inspired Technique Manipulates Light, Could Enable Microchip-Based 3D Optical Devices

David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:50:25 +0000

Nanokirigami has taken off as a field of research in the last few years; the approach is based on the ancient arts of origami (making...

Janus Graft Block Copolymers, A Breakthrough in Nanostructured Materials

SEAS, Yale University — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:30:56 +0000

Block copolymers (BCPs) have been of great interest to researchers in recent years. These nanostructured materials, made from blocks of chemically dissimilar polymers, self-assemble to...

MIT Develops Nontoxic Alternative to Water-Repellent Coatings

David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 13:11:20 +0000

Fabrics that resist water are essential for everything from rainwear to military tents, but conventional water-repellent coatings have been shown to persist in the environment...

Nanoparticles Cure Blood Disorder, Provide Site-Specific Gene Editing

William Weir, Yale University — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:30:53 +0000

With the combined efforts of three Yale laboratories, researchers conducted the first demonstration of site-specific gene editing in a fetus, correcting a mutation that causes...