A tiny chemical "brain" which could one day act as a remote control for swarms of nano-machines has been invented. The molecular device - just two billionths of a metre across - was able to control ...

"We do this shaping at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, like a nano-machine shop," said Cheng, who is working with doctoral students Ji Li, Yiliang Liao, Ting-Fung Chung and Sergey Suslov ...

“There has been a dream for many years to build nano-structures piece by piece, like building a large-scale machine,” explains Alex Zettl, who built the nano-soldering iron at the University ...