This year we enjoyed the 30th anniversary of the discovery of C 60: Buckminsterfullerene.
This discovery in 1985 began a unique period in carbon science that saw the rise of carbon …

Although negligible at large scales, capillary forces may become dominant for submillimetric
objects. Surface tension is usually associated with the spherical shape of small droplets and …

The literature on drying sessile droplets and deposition of suspended material is reviewed
including the simple explanation of the “coffee ring” deposit given by Deegan et al. 1 …

We show here both experimentally and theoretically that the formation of “coffee-ring”
deposits observed at the edge of drying water droplets requires not only a pinned contact …

We present a rational and general method to fabricate a high-densely packed and aligned
single-walled carbon-nanotube (SWNT) material by using the zipping effect of liquids to …

Implantable neural probes that are mechanically compliant with brain tissue offer important
opportunities for stable neural interfaces in both basic neuroscience and clinical …

The maturation of nanotechnology has revealed it to be a unique and distinct discipline
rather than a specialization within a larger field. Its textbook cannot afford to be a chemistry …

Although negligible at macroscopic scales, capillary forces become dominant as the sub-
millimetric scales of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are considered. We review …

A hybrid composite architecture of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), advanced fibers and a matrix
is described, from CNT synthesis and characterization through to standard mechanical and …

The interaction between elasticity and capillarity is used to produce three-dimensional
structures through the wrapping of a liquid droplet by a planar sheet. The final encapsulated …