BREAKTHROUGH : Non-Fading Structural Color For Airplane Paint With 10% of the Weight

A new way of creating color uses the scattering of light of specific wavelengths around tiny, almost perfectly round silicon crystals. This Kobe University development enables non-fading structural colors that do not depend on the viewing angle and can be printed. The material has a low environmental and biological impact and can be applied extremely …

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Self Assembly Nanotechnology Patterns for Better Computers Got 100 Times Faster

In early 2023, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory used autonomous methods can discover new materials. The artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technique led to the discovery of three new nanostructures, including a first-of-its-kind nanoscale ladder. Scanning-electron microscopy images depict novel nanostructures discovered by artificial intelligence. Researchers describe the patterns as skew …

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Breakthrough Demo of 3D DNA Industrial Nanorobots Manufacturing

DNA nanostructures can perform some of the complex robotic fabrication process for manufacturing and self-replication. Building things and performing work with nanorobots has been a major technical and scientific goal. This has been done and published in the peer reviewed journal Science. Nadrian C. “Ned” Seeman (December 16, 1945 – November 16, 2021) was an …

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Molecular Nanotechnology Has Been Successful When Properly Funded

In January, 2022, – The first molecular electronics chip was developed. This achieved a 50-year-old goal of integrating single molecules into circuits to achieve the ultimate scaling limits of Moore’s Law. Developed by Roswell Biotechnologies and a multi-disciplinary team of leading academic scientists, the chip uses single molecules as universal sensor elements in a circuit …

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Working Towards Molecular Nanotechnology

The Foresight Workshops in 2022 and 2023 had talks that discuss to make progress in improving molecular nanotechnology. There is a team working on making a lattice of DNA origami and creating attachment points. There is work with molecular printers and with improved molecular nanotechnology software. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and …

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Glass Nanolattice Structures Four Times Strength but Five Times Lower in Density than Steel

By building a structure out of DNA and then coating it with glass, a research team led by Oleg Gang has created a very strong material with very low density.Gang and colleagues report that by building a structure out of DNA and then coating it with glass, they have created a very strong material with …

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Energy-saving Paint Inspired by Butterflies Needs 0.3% Paint by Weight

University of Central Florida researcher Debashis Chanda, a professor in UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center, has drawn inspiration from butterflies to create the first environmentally friendly, large-scale and multicolor alternative to pigment-based colorants, which can contribute to energy-saving efforts and help reduce global warming. Instead of pigment-based colored paint, which requires artificially synthesized molecules, a UCF …

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State of the Art Quantum Chemistry in 2022

Quantum chemistry is very hard. The best quantum computing chemistry seems to be at the level of 12 qubits / 12 atoms. Supercomputer simulations can handle 20 qubits and 20 atoms simulation. There are early papers that suggest classical supercomputers can get to 100 atoms and 1000 qubit for some types of simulation. Quantum computers …

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Easier and Safer to Use Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Nanocomposite

A research team from Skoltech, Aalto University, and Kurnakov Institute has recently developed a new, versatile and simple approach to using carbon nanotubes for manufacturing carbon nanotube-polymer nanocomposites. The method is reported in Carbon and involves making briquettes — dense packages of carbon nanotube powders. Nanocomposites made with briquettes perform equally well as those made …

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Ultra Strong Carbon Fibers from Fused DWNT Nanotubes- Proof of Principle

Ultra Strong Carbon Fibers from fused DWNT nanotubes have been made and the work was published in Science Advances. Ultrahigh strength, modulus, and conductivity of graphitic fibers by macromolecular coalescence Abstract from Science Advances article Theoretical considerations suggest that the strength of carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers be exceptional; however, their mechanical performance values are much …

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