(Nanowerk News) Researchers from Tohoku University and Kyoto University have successfully developed a DNA-based molecular controller that autonomously directs the assembly and disassembly of molecular ...

A NEW LINE OF INTELLIGENT FASTENERS could soon change how products are designed, assembled, and serviced. The fasteners, from Textron Fastening Systems, Troy, Mich., are wired with embedded microchips ...

A novel technology that utilizes light of different wavelengths to control cellular functions by inducing reversible assembly and disassembly of molecules has been developed. This breakthrough could ...

If a few MIT grad students get their way, programmable matter is the future. Think thousands or hundreds of thousands of nanobots assembling and disassembling on command to form the most efficient ...

Artificial self-assembling light-harvesting systems are of interest in dye-sensitized solar cells where a large photon capture cross section can assure that efficient energy transfer occurs to a large ...

The key to nanotechnology may not be making tiny structures out of individual molecules. It may be forcing those structures to build themselves. And scientists appear to have found a way to make that ...