Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
22-06-2014
Smallest Chemical Nanomotor and Smallest Nanopropeller published
We have published a paper about synthetic chemical nanomotors with an overall size (30 nm) that is comparable to that of some enzymes (Nano Lett., 2014, 14 (5), pp 2407–2412), as well as nanopropellers that are small enough to navigate complex biological networks (diameter of 70 nm), yet can be fully controlled (ACS Nano, Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/nn502360t).
Tung Chun Lee
John Gibbs
Andrew Mark
Mariana Alarcon-Correa
Debora Schamel
Cornelia Miksch
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
09-06-2014
Featured Cover Article
Our paper "Nanopropellers and Their Actuation in Complex Viscoelastic Media“ is the cover article for ACS Nano 8, 8794–8801, (2014). In addition the ACS Nano September 2014 podcast features our work. News sites and blogs report our work as "world’s smallest propeller“. (September 2014) Image by Alejandro Posada Boada.
Debora Schamel
Andrew Mark
John Gibbs
Cornelia Miksch
Peer Fischer
Alejandro Posada
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Award
07-06-2014
Paper award: Tian Qiu, Debora Schamel, Andrew G. Mark, and Peer Fischer's paper "Active Microrheology of the Vitreous of the Eye applied to Nanorobot Propulsion" is the "Best Automation Paper Award - Finalist" of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation - ICRA 2014. (June 2014)
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
21-05-2014
Cover Article
Our paper “Shape control in wafer-based aperiodic 3D nanostructures” is the cover article for Nanotechnology 25 doi:10.1088/0957-4484/25/23/235302. (June, 2014).
Jeong Hyeon-Ho
Andrew Mark
John Gibbs
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
01-05-2014
Congratulations/Welcome
John Gibbs will leave the group and move to a faculty position in Arizona where he will start his own group as a Prof in Physics; Marcel Pfeifer passed his Ph.D. exam – congratulations to both. Welcome to Prof. J.P. Singh from IIT Delhi who is a sabbatical visitor. (May, 2014).
John Gibbs
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
24-01-2014
Guest Editor
Peer Fischer is guest editor for the Nanoscale themed issue on “Helical Micro- and Nanostructures”
(Nanoscale, 2014).
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
18-11-2013
Cover Article
Our paper on “Plasmonic nanohelix metamaterials with tailorable giant circular dichroism” is the featured cover article for the Applied Physics Letters Issue 21, vol. 103, 18 November 2013.
John Gibbs
Andrew Mark
Sahand Eslami
Peer Fischer
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
News
13-08-2013
Designing and building nanocomponents to spec
Hybrid, multifunctional nanostructures with diverse 3D shapes and complex material composition can now be manufactured with a precise and efficient fabrication technique
The realisation of nanomachines is inching ever closer to reality. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart are helping make one of the grand challenges of nanoscience become reality. They have developed a method that makes it possible to manufacture an assortment of unusually shaped and functionalisable nanostructures. It lets them combine materials with widely varying chemical and physical properties at the smallest of scales. The team of scientists headed by Peer Fischer have even grown helical light antennas that are less than 100nm in length from materials which can typically not be shaped at the nanoscale. This is achieved by vapour depositing the material onto a super-cooled rotating disk. Not only does the process allow for the fabrication of nanostructures more exactly than previous methods, several billion of such nanoparticles can be produced in parallel in a rapid manner.
Peer Fischer
Andrew Mark
