Chemical Lift-Off Lithography Patterns Biomolecules at High Resolution
Using chemically treated stamps to remove molecules already in place on gold substrates, scientists have created a new process called chemical lift-off lithography (CLL) that…
Using chemically treated stamps to remove molecules already in place on gold substrates, scientists have created a new process called chemical lift-off lithography (CLL) that…
Nanites and nano-scale robots have been found mostly in the realm of science fiction, but scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biological Inspired Engineering are…
By using water-repellent ferrous nanoparticles that mix with oil and can be separated from water by using magnets, MIT researchers have developed a new technique…
Building on their earlier research, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have made the first all-optical photonic switch out of cadmium sulfide nanowires, an important…
A gold particle five nanometers in width weighs just a few megadaltons, a tiny unit of measure used in biochemistry that is equivalent to the…
Using a technique called “patterned regrowth,” scientists at Cornell have invented a way to pattern single atom films of graphene and boron nitride without the…
Scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have developed a more powerful and longer-lasting fuel cell material by replacing the central part of the…
By plating a very thin wafer of silicon with a nanometer-thin layer of gold, applied physicists have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light…
In a newly published research paper, MIT scientists describe the method they used to identify and fabricate nanocrystalline alloys that meet operational requirements, even at…
A newly published study from researchers at MIT details the use of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) as a 2D platform for electronic devices, possibly opening the…
In a newly published study, a team of researchers describes their new approach towards creating polymeric thin film biomaterials that achieve mechanical rigidity in conjunction…
Using a technique based on electron-beam lithography and a lift-off process, MIT scientists demonstrated the first semiconductor nanocrystal films of nanoscale dimensions that are electrically…
Working as a team, scientists from SIMES and the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis studied two platinum-rhodium nanostructures, identifying the most active sites…
An international team of scientists created the world’s first hybrid crystalline/amorphous material that is hard enough to indent diamonds. Using a diamond anvil cell, the…
In a newly published study, researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and their colleagues have shown the first direct real-space images of spin-split molecular…
Using RNA-delivering nanoparticles that allow for rapid screening of new drug targets in mice, MIT researchers in collaboration with researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and…
By synthesizing nanoparticles of sodium borohydride and encasing them inside nickel shells, chemical engineers at the University of New South Wales have demonstrated remarkable hydrogen…
MIT researchers believe engineers may be able design new bio-inspired materials by compiling and analyzing data on the microstructures of a number of different plants….