Nanorobotics is currently a much studied field by the international scientific world. Numerous applications of nanorobotics make it to expand in several areas. This occurs through the integration of several disciplines, including nanofabrication processes used to produce nanorobots, nanoactuators, nano-sensors and nanometer scale physical modeling. Some of the most important applications of nan...

Nanomanipulation refers to the process of transporting nanoscale components. It has found applications in nanodevice prototyping and biomolecular and cellular investigation. In this paper, we present an atomic force microscope (AFM) based approach for automated manipulation of nanoparticles to form designed patterns. The automated manipulation is based on a novel method, successive directional ...

The adhesion between a micro/nano-object and a microgripper end-effector is an important problem in micromanipulation. Canceling or reducing this force is a great challenge. This force is directly linked to the surface chemical structure of the object and the gripper. We propose to predict this force between a structuring surface and a micro-object with a multisphere van der Waals force model. ...

At present, technical hurdles remain in probing biochemical processes in living cells and organisms at nanometre spatial resolution, millisecond time resolution and with high specificity and single-molecule sensitivity. Owing to its unique shape, size and electrical properties, the nanopipette has been used to obtain high-resolution topographic images of live cells under physiological condition...

We demonstrate the feasibility of trapping and manipulating individual macromolecules such as globular proteins (~ 5 nm in diameter) in free solution using a flow-based, microfluidic confinement method. This new method enables confinement of small nanoscale objects in free solution by utilizing a planar extensional flow created at a microchannel junction. The fluid flow based confinement method...