Sentences with phrase «building nanoscale devices»

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Medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and sensors can have nanotechnological elements or can be built at the nanoscale themselves.

«The way to create viable, profitable technology in the nanoscale regime, and build billions of copies of tiny devices, is to harness nature's properties of self - assembly,» says nanotechnologist Uzi Landman of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, US.

The nc - AFM microscopy provided striking visual confirmation of the mechanisms that underlie these synthetic organic chemical reactions, and the unexpected results reinforced the promise of this powerful new method for building advanced nanoscale electronic devices from the bottom up.

Researchers hope to build and better characterize nanoscale molecular devices using DNA segments that can, for example, store and deliver drugs to targeted areas in the body.

The results reported in Advanced Materials are works of art that may someday lead to nanoscale electronic devices, catalysts, molecular sieves and battery components, and on the macroscale could become high - load - bearing, impact - resistant components for buildings, cars, and aircraft.