NIST nanofluidic 'multi-tool' separates and sizes nanoparticles
Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 05:56
in Physics & Chemistry
A wrench or a screwdriver of a single size is useful for some jobs, but for a more complicated project, you need a set of tools of different sizes. Following this guiding principle, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have engineered a nanoscale fluidic device that functions as a miniature 'multi-tool' for working with nanoparticles - objects whose dimensions are measured in nanometres, or billionths of a metre...