Nanotechnology can use catalytic motors to convert chemical to mechanical energy, using fuels that are chemically simpler than ATP and catalysts that are simpler than enzymes.
Can online gamers add to the nanotech toolkit for perfecting the de novo design of proteins that do not exist in nature?
Preliminary theoretical calculations show that it might be possible to develop a nanotech application in which clusters of a few boron atoms connect very small graphene semiconductors to make nanoelectronic devices.
By adding carbon nanotubes to catalytic nanowires, nanotechnology has produced simple nanomotors that can surpass biological motors (somewhat).
Forests of spiraling nanotrees made from lead sulfide nanowires may lead to new nanotech approaches for producing one-dimensional nanostructures based on designed dislocations rather than metal catalysts to control growth.
Nanotechnology has provided a fourth fundamental two-terminal passive element for electronic circuits.
A special issue of the International Journal of Nanomanufacturing presenting topics on manufacturing in 3D at the nanoscale (derived from the 4th International Symposium on Nanomanufacturing held at MIT in November 2006) contains a report of a nanomanipulator for the complex assembly of nanoparticles. Although the press release from Inderscience Publishers, via AAAS EurekAlert (“Are… Continue reading Will a "'proto-prototype' for a nanoassembler" lead to atomically precise manufacturing?
A new building block for structural DNA nanotechnology uses a 3-carbon glycerol molecule instead of the 5-carbon sugar deoxyribose found in DNA.
The nanotechnology of engineering atomic layer interfaces to produce desired properties—in this case, something called ‘improper ferroelectricity’—promises a technological revolution that may be comparable to the development of modern electronics. From a Stony Brook University news release via ScienceDaily: In the 10 April issue of Nature [abstract], a new artificial material is revealed that marks… Continue reading Nanotechnology engineers atomic layer interfaces to produce new electronic materials
A new nanotech method of measuring “blurred” molecular motions promises to improve the accuracy of molecular motion simulations.
