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| Picture this: instead of plastic bottles from oil or concrete made from sand, what if everyday things were grown from living organisms? That's the incredible promise of engineered living materials. Watch video |
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| Learn about nanobots with our deep dive into their real-world medical potential versus the sci-fi hype. Join us as we uncover what nanorobotics can really do today. Watch video |
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| Imagine a world where every book, song, movie, and software could fit into the palm of your hand. This isn't science fiction; it's the reality of DNA data storage. Watch video |
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| Nanomaterials are fascinating tiny substances, and their size gives them some really special characteristics. Think of them in categories like 'zero'-dimensional, 'one'-dimensional, 'two'-dimensional and three-dimensional materials. 'Zero-dimensional???' you ask? This concept is initially challenging to grasp. So, let's unpack this. Watch video |
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| Explore the fascinating world of nanophotonics and learn how controlling light at the nano-scale leads to breakthroughs in technology and medicine, from ultra-efficient solar panels to advanced medical diagnostics. Watch video |
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| Inspired by sea cucumbers, engineers have designed miniature robots that rapidly and reversibly shift between liquid and solid states. On top of being able to shape-shift, the robots are magnetic and can conduct electricity. Watch video |
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| Assembly of architectures where multilayer pattern elements using microsystem technology fold up into 3D structures, self-assembling to form microelectronic SMARTLETs with self-propulsion. These SMARTLETs can then be aggregated passively or actively into higher hierarchical assemblies. Watch video |
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| Although carbon nanotube forests are hard to grow very long via conventional methods, a little tweak in technique can change things dramatically. Watch video |
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| Video shows a simulated build of a large tower by three teams of robots, implementing the autonomous path planning algorithm. The construction was initiated from a base layer of voxels. Watch video |
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| This video shows a MOFBOT writing the letters "mof". By applying concepts developed in micro- and nanorobotics, researchers demonstrate the controlled motion and delivery of cargo payloads embedded in metal-organic frameworks. Watch video |
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| An electrically small antenna being patterned on the outer surface of the glass hemisphere. Watch video |
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| In contrast with the microchannel-based fluidics, the manipulation of discrete droplets without using microfluidic channels is a new field. Here, a liquid droplet is not confined to a closed channel and there is no risk of it being adsorbed on a channel wall. A liquid marble, a liquid encapsulated by non-wetting powder, could be a new microfluidic device, which is especially useful for handling single liquid droplet. Watch video |
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| Researchers demonstrate a nanomechanical chip that can be internalized to detect intracellular pressure changes within living cells, enabling an interrogation method based on confocal laser scanning microscopy. Watch video |
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| Bionic functional surfaces allow the precise control of the directional bouncing of water. Watch video |
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| Fluids find path through a maze with a single inlet and outlet. The circuit was built by jetting a fluorocarbon through media plus red dye; when blue dye is pumped into the inlet, it takes the path of least resistance through the maze. Watch video |
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| This video shows the ultrafast propulsion of an AlGa/Ti micromotor in water. It shows time-lapse images, taken from SI Video 1, over a 300 ms period. A long tail of hydrogen bubbles generated on one side of the micromotor is clearly observed, reflecting the rapid spontaneous reaction of aluminum with the surrounding water. Watch video |
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| This clip shows the process of the absorption of water droplets on the superhydrophilic wool fabrics. In the video, the fabric on the left is a pristine wool fabric and the right is a silica-grafted wool fabric. The water absorption rates of the silica-grafted wool fabric are fast and the drip diffusion radii are large, which is of great importance to realize the fast absorbing and quick-drying of water or perspiration on the surface of human skin. Watch video |
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| A planar organic thin-film transistor responds to a temperature change, deploys into a helix and wraps around a rod after being inserted through a 150 ?m-thick opening in a thermal barrier. Watch video |