This is nanoscale CNC type technology...very cool. It will be interesting to see where it leads:

[www.flickr.com]

Here's a link to IBM's site on this topic:

[www.zurich.ibm.com]


And here's an article with yet more details on this technology:

[www.eetimes.com]

enjoy!

If anyone's interested in finding out more on the science behind this story, we've set the original research article free to access for the next few weeks; you can find it here: [www.materialsviews.com]

Adrian Miller
Advanced Materials

Hi Adrian,

its really interesting stuff and give some ideas for meso-/macro-scale-fabbing with 'vanishing' materials

I know similar 'macro'-systems with a soldering bit vanishing styrofoam - my father made his mountains for a model-train with this methode.

I remember a post in the forum where someone modelled wax-blocks with a heated needle sucking the molten wax away ...

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Call for the project "garbage-free seas" - [reprap.org]

Ah, this is a nice opportunity to point to a nano scale cartesian bot design I fell in love with. See the 'Disk Scanner' links here:

http://www.geocities.com/spm_stm/Project.html


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... i have some piezoleg-motors which are powered with 12 Volts, have a traveling range of 25mm and a step-resolution of 150 nanometer stepping and could be optimized (possibly but complicated/expensive) for 'bending' between the steps so they can resolve sub-nanometers.

In past i built some cartesian 3-axis-systems for microassembly, but this can be repeated for nano-/microfabbing too

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Viktor
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Aufruf zum Projekt "Müll-freie Meere" - [reprap.org] -- Deutsche Facebook-Gruppe - [www.facebook.com]

Call for the project "garbage-free seas" - [reprap.org]

More on this from MIT:

[www.technologyreview.com]