MIT has devised a way of creating complex, self-assembling 3D nanostructures of wires and junctions. While self-assembling structures have been made from polymers before, this is the first time that ...

Scientists from Rice University have demonstrated that Tesla coils can wirelessly induce carbon nanotubes to self-assemble into wire-like patterns by electrifying them with its powerful electric field ...

IBM has found a way to use the designs of nature in building the next generation of powerful computer chips. The breakthrough marks the first time chips have been made with a self-assembling ...

Imagine if instead of painstakingly creating computer chips using complex nanoscale engineering you could simply let raw materials assemble themselves into the same structure from the molecule up.