Sunlight-driven water splitting to produce hydrogen fuel has stimulated intensive scientific
interest, as this technology has the potential to revolutionize fossil fuel-based energy …

In his 1665 treatise, Micrographia, Robert Hooke described the many observations he had
made using a microscope, including compartment-like structures in cork samples that he …

A scanning electron microscope (SEM) provides real-time imaging with nanometer
resolution and a large scanning area, which enables the development and integration of …

Short, self-assembling peptides form a variety of stable nanostructures used for the rational
design of functional devices. Peptides serve as organic templates for conjugating …

Additive manufacturing has provided a pathway for inexpensive and flexible manufacturing
of specialized components and one-off parts. At the nanoscale, such techniques are less …

Controlled manipulation of individual micro-and nanoscale objects requires the use of
trapping forces that can be focused and translated with high spatial and time resolution. We …

This paper presents an innovative driving method for an on-chip robot actuated by
permanent magnets in a microfluidic chip. A piezoelectric ceramic is applied to induce …

An atlas of 98 microgrippers that recently appeared in Literature is herein presented by
using four different forms:(a) a restyled layout of the original mechanical structure,(b) its …

One of the great challenges in microscale science and engineering is the independent
manipulation of cells and man-made objects on the micron scale. For such work, motile …

Ionic transport through nanofluidic systems is a problem of fundamental interest in transport
physics and has broad relevance in desalination, fuel cells, batteries, filtration, and drug …