Self-healing coatings are advanced materials that can repair damage, such as scratches and cracks on their own. Researchers have developed an efficient method for preparing self-healing films ...

Researchers have developed a technique for fabricating 3-D, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling photolithography and a self-folding process driven by capillary ...

What is Layer-by-Layer Assembly? Layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly is a technique for fabricating multilayered thin films by alternately depositing oppositely charged materials onto a substrate. This ...

To demonstrate the potential of this new approach, the team fabricated a series of mixed-material microdevices, including valves capable of separating nanoparticles of different sizes, and ...

Flow chemistry—in which reagents course through a series of reactors to form new compounds—allows chemists to build molecules in a fast and efficient assembly-line-like way. But with each additional ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Mesoporous materials have emerged as a frontier of materials science, thanks to their unique combination of high surface area, tunable pore sizes, and ability to host functional ...

Deposition of many important materials such as semi-conductors is performed using energetic jets under low pressure conditions. In addition, materials that have been deposited, such as silicon, are ...

The optofluidic approach to 3D microfabrication achieves high assembly rates and broad material use, paving the way for advanced microdevice applications.