"The new possibilities that will open up when we can routinely tailor material at the atomic level is something we can only speculate about for the moment..."  Read more

Nanotechnology is sometimes called atomic carpentry. As if it were just as easy to assemble a new molecule as it is to nail together a box with a few pieces of wood. When these pieces of wood are only millionths of a millimetre in size you realise that it can't be that easy!  Read more

For a long time people thought that graphite and diamond were the only stable forms in which pure carbon could occur. Then fullerenes, carbon balls, rolled into the arena, and nothing's been quite the same since. Absolutely nothing comes stronger than a carbon nanotube!  Read more

An incredibly small electrical switch, a nano relay, has been built in Göteborg, Sweden. It's a million times thinner than an ordinary switch. But how can we use this new technology when we have no chance to see what's happening?  Read more

Building an elevator to space has long been a dream among science-fiction authors. If this becomes possible one day it will be thanks to the incredibly strong and incredibly small nanotube – a structure that nano scientists foresee a revolutionising future for.  Read more