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Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Hayley Birch |
Lift off for nanoscale printing A new printing technique developed by US scientists allows them to transfer a pattern with nanoscale features from a stamp onto a surface, achieving surprisingly sharp results. The technique could help bring down the cost of high resolution lithography.  |
Chemistry World June 17, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Nanoboxes given optoelectronic function Scientists in the US have folded a nanoscale wafer of aluminium oxide, with a pattern of gold on its surface, into a hollow cube, creating a tiny optoelectronic device.  |
Chemistry World July 22, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Self-assembling DNA structures carve out a niche Researchers have used DNA nanostructures to create raised ridges and tiny trenches in silicon dioxide using an etching technique.  |
Chemistry World August 18, 2008 |
Patterning Promise for Next-Gen Computers Breakthroughs in controlling the way polymers self-assemble on surfaces could be key to making the next generation of computer components, say two teams in the US.  |
Chemistry World July 30, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Smoothing out plasmonic surfaces US scientists have found a simple way to make smooth metal films with nano-scale patterns in a variety of shapes that could one day be used in plasmonic devices that manipulate electromagnetic waves.  |
Technology Research News July 13, 2005 |
Self-Assembly Goes Around Bends Researchers have found a way a way to make polymer chains automatically assemble in non-regular patterns, including sharp angles. The method could eventually be used to build precise features as small as ten nanometers.  |
Chemistry World January 17, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Rainbow Hued Graphene Oxide Repels Water Scientists in China have used a laser to carve out a pattern of ridges and valleys on layered graphene oxide to mimic two of nature's tricks in one go - iridescence and superhydrophobicity.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Chris A. Mack |
Seeing Double Someday, chips might be made with X-rays. Until then, double-patterning lithography will be the only game in town.  |
Chemistry World December 19, 2012 |
Overcoming small obstacles What if photolithography hits a barrier it cannot breach? That question has motivated scientists to recruit chemistry to a series of printing methods with the power to engineer nanometre-scale materials.  |
Chemistry World March 29, 2011 |
A Single Scale Tells More Than a Whole Wing Scientists in China have made zinc oxide replicas of single scales from butterfly wings to understand and exploit their optical properties for sensor and solar cell applications.  |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 |
DNA process stamps patterns DNA's ability to connect matching strands is at the heart of a stamp that promises to bring mass production to the nanoscale.  |
Chemistry World March 25, 2014 David Bradley |
Silkscreen printing goes nano A team at Tufts University, US, has demonstrated that water can be used as the base for electron-beam lithography if silk is the target material with another acting as the mask for areas onto which the beam must not impinge.  |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Ice transforms chipmaking Spraying water vapor onto cold silicon could be a simple way to make computer chips. The key is etching nanoscale lines into the resulting ice to make microscopic computer circuits. The process is environmentally friendly to boot.  |
Bank Systems & Technology June 1, 2010 Penny Crosman |
Science Behind Butterfly Wings Could Secure Bank Notes Cambridge scientists have developed the technology to recreate the colors on butterfly wings, and this technology could be used to secure printed notes, they say.  |
Chemistry World November 11, 2011 Charlie Quigg |
Invisible ink for the 21st century Scientists from China have developed a new lithographic printing technique to layer a pattern onto photonic paper.  |
Chemistry World December 3, 2010 Harriet Brewerton |
Butterfly effect A way to identify individual butterflies from the same species has been designed by scientists in Hungary, who say that the technique could be used to analyse delicate museum samples without destroying them.  |
Wired July 2001 |
Verge Sandia National Laboratories's Extreme Ultraviolet Engineering Test Stand develops and tests extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) techniques, with which chip makers hope to overcome the limitations of current production methods...  |
Chemistry World February 12, 2012 Laura Howes |
Thermal imaging on the wing By adding carbon nanotubes to butterfly wings chemists have been able to turn these nanostructures into an infrared detector.  |
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 |
Simulation maps nano patterns Researchers from the University of Michigan have used a computer simulation to develop a method of chemically building nanoscale patterns on a surface.  |
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Butterflies offer lessons for robots Researchers from Oxford University in England have devised a method of studying the way butterflies fly, and their initial results show that the insects have many more tricks of flight than they get credit for.  |
Job Journal September 4, 2011 Deborah Brown-Volkman |
Career Pros: Beat the Career-Pattern Blues If co-workers were asked to criticize your performance, what would you guess they'd say? Knowing the answer to that question raises another. Why don't you make the changes necessary to improve your shortcomings?  |