Kartik Mangudi Varadarajan Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 3-446 Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: 617-452-4957, [email protected] Martin L. Culpepper Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 3-449b Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: 617-452-2359, [email protected]

Nanotechnologies have attracted wide interests and evolved rapidly in the past two decades. They are expected to have transformative impacts on the health, environment, energy, and many other aspects of our society. However, their applications so far are severely hindered by the lack of matured and affordable manufacturing technologies to realize systems in large scales where millions of nanosc...

Nanotechnology and nanomaterials have the potential to revolutionize existing and create entirely new industries. Unique physical, mechanical, chemical, and biological properties of nanomaterials have been extensively documented in the last two decades. However, most nanomaterials are discontinuous in nature, creating problems with their processing and manipulation into devices and raising heal...

We present a high-throughput and scalable technique for the production of metal nanowires embedded in glass fibres by taking advantage of thin film properties and patterning techniques commonly used in planar microfabrication. This hybrid process enables the fabrication of single nanowires and nanowire arrays encased in a preform material within a single fibre draw, providing an alternative to ...

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In this paper, we review the current development of stencil lithography for scalable microand nanomanufacturing as a resistless and reusable patterning technique. We first introduce the motivation and advantages of stencil lithography for large-area microand nanopatterning. Then we review the progress of using rigid membranes such as SiNx and Si as stencil masks as well as stacking layers. We a...

The probe could be used both as a research tool in the development of next-generation cancer treatments and as a nanomanufacturing tool to build the implantable drug delivery devices that will apply these treatments. The potential of nanomaterials to revolutionize drug delivery is emergent in early trials, which show their ability to moderate the release of highly toxic chemotherapy drugs and o...

Low-cost diagnostics for drinking water contamination have the potential to save millions of lives. We report a method that uses inkjet printing to copattern an enzyme-nanoparticle sensor and substrate on a paper-based test strip for rapid detection of bacteria. A colorimetric response is generated on the paper substrate that allows visual detection of contamination without the need for expensi...