Like a top spinning about its axis, an electron constantly rotates about its own axis creating a tiny magnetic moment known as the ?spin?...

The advancement in semiconductor industry is changing research laboratories. Clean rooms have to be built, and lithography machines need to be installed...

Metallic structures are ubiquitous in micro and nanotechnology. From the interconnects that transmit signals in your i-Pod, cell phone and laptop,...

While we work at the nanometer scale, we need to be able to image objects on this scale in order to ultimately...

As scientists look for new materials to replace silicon for faster computers, carbon nanotubes and nanowires of various kinds have appeared to be the most...

Dr. Omid Farokhzad is an attending anthesiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. His research interests include pain medicine and cancer nanotechnology...

Nearly half a century has passed since Richard Feynman pointed out the tremendous potential in making structures at the atomic scale...

Over a century ago, when he invented the ubiquitous dish that bears his name, Julius Petri, a technician in Robert Koch?s laboratory,...

Professor Steven Currall recently published an article in Nature Nanotechnology. He answers our questions about the future and risks of nanoscience...