If we want to build a fully functional nanosized robot, we need to incorporate a host of capabilities, from complicated electronic circuits and photovoltaics to sensors and antennas. But just as importantly,…
Tag: Nanotechnology
Nanodroplets and Ultrasound ‘Drills’ Prove Effective at Tackling Tough Blood Clots
Engineering researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for eliminating particularly tough blood clots, using engineered nanodroplets and an ultrasound “drill” to break up the clots from the…
New brain cell-like nanodevices work together to identify mutations in viruses
In the journal Nature, scientists from Texas A&M University, Hewlett Packard Labs and Stanford University have described a new nanodevice that acts almost identically to a brain cell. Furthermore, they have shown…
MIT Engineers produce a completely Flat Fisheye Lens that can produce Crisp Panoramic images
To capture panoramic views in a single shot, photographers typically use fisheye lenses — ultra-wide-angle lenses made from multiple pieces of curved glass, which distort incoming light to produce wide, bubble-like images….
Painting With Light: Novel Nanopillars Precisely Control the Color and Intensity of Transmitted Light
By shining white light on a glass slide stippled with millions of tiny titanium dioxide pillars, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have reproduced with…