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
A strange liquid magnet full of iron nanoparticles can change its shape in a magnetic field, and it may eventually be used to make wireless, moving soft robots
Jul 23, 2019
Before life began on Earth, the environment likely contained a massive number of chemicals that reacted with each other more or less randomly, and it is unclear how the complexity of cells could have emerged from such chemical chaos. Now, a team l...
Jul 23, 2019
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have designed a graphene device that switches from a superconducting material to an insulator...
Jul 23, 2019
