All Articles Tagged As: nanomachines

Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines (12/8/2009)

Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation of famous Casimir forces that took place at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. ...> Full Article

Self-assembly now easier to control (5/17/2009)

Nature has long perfected the construction of nanomachines, but David Gonzalez and his fellow researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology and Utrecht University under the leadership of Spinoza Award winner Bert Meijer, have brought the construction of artificial supramolecular structures a step closer by. The researchers managed to carefully control the self-assembly of guanosine, one of the building blocks of our DNA. Their research results were published by Nature Chemistry on April 19. ...> Full Article

Researchers design nanomachine that kills cancer cells (4/2/2008)

'Nanoimpeller' releases anticancer drugs inside of cancer cells ...> Full Article

Nanomaterials Show Unexpected Strength Under Stress (3/14/2008)

In yet another twist on the strangeness of the nanoworld, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland-College Park have discovered that materials such as silica that are quite brittle in bulk form behave as ductile as gold at the nanoscale. Their results may affect the design of future nanomachines. ...> Full Article