Nano Tekno: Everything Went Black

A dreamy medley of nanoclips showing grippers that try to wrestle nanotubes and nanowires - watch them fight for their lives, as the "giant vice" close in for a better grip.

Music: Taiis.mymusic.dk,
http://www.soundvenue.com/band.asp?id=3005

The films show phenomena like sticktion - the nanotubes cling to the jaws - bending, sliding, breaking and even melting of a Bismuth nanowire - who could not stand the heat from the electrothermal arm (heated by current).

The films were shot by Volkmar Eichhorn at Oldenburg University, experiments done by Volkmar, Kenneth Carlson and Karin N Andersen, Kenneth and Karin made the grippers, and the tubes were made by Ken Teo and Ian Bu at Cambridge University.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• nanomanipulation
• nanoassembly
• nanotubes
• nanowires
• nanotechnology
• nanorobots
• nanorobotics

[MrEdobob]

So how would those nano-stuff be different with bacterias if they had gain more complexity?

[NanoClips]

@MrEdobob the robots shown here are very very far from bacteria. In fact, when anyone wants to make a nanorobot, its far easier to take a bacteria and modify it... its already the perfect nanomachine. But this is not something i know how to do :)...

[eviltheory]

cool video. Have you tried different material systems like GaAs/InP wires? What is the reason that the bulk modulus decrease at the nanoscale?

[NanoClips]

@eviltheory 2 years later - SORRY ... The bulk modulus does not necessarily decrease. Single walled carbon nanotubes have perfect structure and very high modulus. Depending on the material and the fabrication process, there can be many defects in the structure (nanotube made with chemical vapor deposition are often defected) and there can also be surface effects - the surface becoming a bigger and bigger part of the structure, as the structure is reduced in size...

[EnhanceTheTruth]

@Jenfucius It's not going to happen very soon at all, unfortunately.

[Jenfucius]

Hopefully very soon nano scale robots could be created. It could revolutionize medicine (among other things of course).

Hopefully one day we can completely cure cancer and other deadly diseases.

[NanoClips]

Nanotechnology is mainstream. Thing is, people who sells succesful stuff, dont need the brand "nanotechnology" - people buy computers, LEDs, harddisks, paing, sunscreen and a ton of other products, because they work and are cheap, not because they are nano. It has already happened, and it has not been such a big deal ... but try to compare a modern pocket TByte harddisk at 100 euro with state of art of storage 15 years ago. Thats mainstream nanotechnology.

[vman456]

Ray Kurzweil predicts that nanotechnology will become mainstream before the end of the second decade. Would you agree?

[soepvorkje]

wow cool!!!

[soepvorkje]

maybe they can make stronger and lighter materials ?