Scientists succeeded in producing Janus nanorings with two different sides for the first time.
Jul 23, 2019
In every modern microcircuit hidden inside a laptop or smartphone, you can see transistors—small semiconductor devices that control the flow of electric current, i.e. the flow of electrons. If we replace electrons with photons (elementary particle...
Jul 23, 2019
Chemists usually synthesize molecules using stochastic bond-forming collisions of the reactant molecules in solution. Nature follows a different strategy in biochemical synthesis. The majority of biochemical reactions are driven by machine-type pr...
Jul 23, 2019
Polarisable microrobots components can be designed to find each other in an electric field.
Jul 23, 2019
A team of chemists built the first artificial assembler, which uses light as the energy source. These molecular machines are performing synthesis in a similar way as biological nanomachines. Advantages are fewer side products, enantioselectivity, ...
Jul 23, 2019
Scientists from Valencia’s Polytechnic University suggest a new design for antennas that are placed within chips, which comprise all the advantages of silicon photonics and plasmonics....
Jul 23, 2019
Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have created a new multi-material 3-D nanoprinting technique that was featured on the inside front cover of the July 21 issue of Lab on a Chip.
Jul 23, 2019
The engineer's new technique - capable of printing tiny multi-material structures a fraction of the size of a human hair - offers researchers a faster, cheaper, and more accurate means to 3D print these highly complex structures because the p...
Jul 23, 2019
Scientists built the first artificial assembler, which uses light as the energy source. These molecular machines are performing synthesis in a similar way as biological nanomachines.
Jul 23, 2019
All life is cellular, but the origins of cellularity remain unknown. Scientists have discovered that simple organic compounds like glycolic and lactic acid polymerize and self-assemble into cell-sized droplets when dried and rewetted, as might hav...
Jul 23, 2019
