A pioneering UK program aimed at developing a nanofactory has made a £1.53M ($3M) award to Professor Philip Moriarty of the University of Nottingham to support a five-year series of experiments to investigate the possibility of diamond mechanosynthesis, testing the theoretical proposals recently made by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle. Details are contained in the… Continue reading Diamond mechanosynthesis for atomically precise nanotechnology to be explored experimentally
Nanotech researchers have constructed a UV laser that they expect will eventually be able to manipulate and precisely deposit Group III and Group V atoms to construct composite materials atom-by-atom.
Sturdy structures ordered with nanometer precision have now been formed by combining supramolecular assembly of ordered networks with self-assembled monolayers.
A recent review article delineates engineering principles that may prove valuable for engineering complex nanosystems that can be discerned from the molecular mechanisms by which such biological molecular motors operate and are controlled.
Researchers have demonstrated atomically precise cuts through a few graphene layers.
A double-walled carbon nanotube forms a device able to weigh a single atom of gold.
A major advance in mimicking protein function has been made by scientists working with peptoids.
The recently demonstrated ability to visualize individual atoms of carbon and hydrogen on a graphene surface opens new avenues for studying the behavior of hydrocarbon chains.
Japanese researchers have succeeded in visualizing the motion of a molecular rotor.
An ‘artificial DNA’ in which the two natural DNA base pairs have been replaced by two non-natural base pairs may provide useful new nanotech building blocks.
