Nanostructures

Researchers have created a nanoscale electronic ‘tattoo’ that attaches to an individual cell without damaging it. The breakthrough development could be used to monitor cell health and puts us one step closer to getting the jump on disease diagnosis.

Harvard has reported a breakthrough artificial eye just 30 microns in depth which can exceed the capabilities of the human eye. The technology could make a real impact in all manner of optical fields, including those in cameras, telescopes, microscopes, glasses and even virtual reality.

Using electroactive polymers and a combination of biological and engineered parts, researchers at the University of Tel Aviv have created a bionic patch for the heart that replaces damaged heart tissue, provides electrical stimulation, and releases medication on demand.

Scientists working at the University of Bayreuth claim to have created a super-efficient, quantum coherent, nanofiber light-energy transport conduit that exhibits almost zero loss, and shows promise as the missing efficiency link in the sunlight to energy conversion process.

The very same building blocks that make us have been successfully programmed to form 32 differently-shaped crystal structures with precisely-defined depth and a variety of sophisticated 3D nanoscale attributes, thereby laying further foundations for the use of DNA to revolutionize nanotechnology.

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology are developing a disruptive manufacturing process that combines nanoscale effects and ad-hoc architectural design to build new supermaterials from the ground up.

Researchers have extracted graphene flakes using a kitchen blender and liquid soap. With their low-tech experiment, the team at Trinity College Dublin may have helped to usher in the industrial production of the super-lightweight, super-strong, super-conductive material.

Researchers from Minnesota and Seoul have developed a novel nanolithographic technique based on atomic layer deposition and ... Scotch Magic tape. Materials made using this new method show hugely nonlinear optical properties and promise to enhance our ability to fabricate nanostructures.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a “nanoflower” structure out of germanium sulfide (GeS) that shows great promise for use in energy-storage devices and more efficient solar cells.

IBM chemists have created polymer nanostructures that are capable of killing bacteria, without some of the drawbacks associated with antibiotics.

Using a technique that creates a new nanoscale architecture, researchers have created an aluminum alloy just as strong as steel but with reasonable plasticity to stretch and not break under stress.

Scientists have created an autonomous "nanobot" out of DNA.