21st July 2023

Hyundai to use nanotechnology in cars from 2025–2026

Hyundai Motor Group has unveiled its vision for the future of mobility, announcing the development of six innovative nanotechnologies designed to enhance the performance, efficiency, and safety of its vehicles.

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15th May 2023

Nanotechnology breakthrough: A single-molecule valve

A breakthrough in nanoscale control of fluids has been demonstrated by Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan.

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6th April 2023

Micro-robot can target, capture, and move individual cells

A new robot just 10 microns across is able to navigate in a physiological environment and perform a variety of tasks both autonomously or through external control by a human operator.

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17th December 2022

Scientists find material with highest toughness ever recorded

Scientists in the U.S. have measured the highest toughness ever recorded, of any material, while investigating a metallic alloy made of chromium, cobalt, and nickel (CrCoNi).

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2nd October 2022

Smart microrobots walk autonomously

Researchers have installed electronic "brains" on solar-powered robots that are just 100 to 250 micrometres in size, so the tiny machines can walk autonomously without being externally controlled.

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4th July 2022

Samsung begins chip production using 3 nm process

Samsung has announced the first mass production of computer chips using a 3 nanometre (nm) process.

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29th April 2022

Ultra-pure diamond could store 25 exabytes of data

Engineers have developed a way to mass-produce diamond wafers that could store the equivalent of a billion Blu-ray disks on a single device.

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20th March 2022

Transistor gate is just 0.3 nm long

Using graphene and molybdenum disulphide, scientists have made a transistor gate with a length of only 0.3 nanometres, equivalent to just one carbon atom.

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25th January 2022

First molecular electronics chip

A new biosensor chip can observe direct electrical measurements of single-molecule interactions. This could enable faster and cheaper DNA sequencing, disease surveillance, and precision medicine on portable devices.

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23rd December 2021

A vaccine against multiple variants of COVID-19

A new vaccine for COVID-19, using a multi-faced nanoparticle, could offer protection against many different strains of the virus simultaneously.

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20th December 2021

New semiconductor design could extend Moore's Law

IBM and Samsung Electronics have jointly announced a breakthrough in semiconductor design, utilising a new vertical transistor architecture that demonstrates a path to scaling beyond the nanosheet.

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29th November 2021

Ultracompact camera is the size of a salt grain

U.S. researchers have developed a new imaging device just 500 μm (0.5 mm) in diameter. The system can produce crisp, full-colour images on a par with conventional compound camera lenses 500,000 times larger in volume.

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4th November 2021

High-speed laser could write 500 TB of data into glass

A breakthrough by UK researchers could make ultra-high density, 5D optical storage practical for long-term data archiving.

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