{"id":20808,"date":"2016-01-16T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T20:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/bubble-pen-can-precisely-write-patterns-with-nanoparticles-as-small-as-1-nanometer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:07:16","slug":"bubble-pen-can-precisely-write-patterns-with-nanoparticles-as-small-as-1-nanometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/bubble-pen-can-precisely-write-patterns-with-nanoparticles-as-small-as-1-nanometer","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bubble pen\u2019 can precisely write patterns with nanoparticles as small as 1 nanometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nYQp2D_835E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Allows for more easily building tiny machines, biomedical sensors, optical computers, solar panels, and other devices \u2014 no complex clean room required; portable version planned.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Illustration of the bubble-pen pattern-writing process using an optically controlled microbubble on a plasmonic substrate. The small blue spheres are colloidal nanoparticles. (credit: Linhan Lin et al.\/Nano Letters) <\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engr.utexas.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cockrell School of Engineering<\/a> at The University of Texas at Austin have created \u201cbubble-pen lithography\u201d \u2014 a device and technique to quickly, gently, and precisely use microbubbles to \u201cwrite\u201d using gold, silicon and other nanoparticles between 1 and 100 nanometers in size as \u201cink\u201d on a surface.<\/p>\n<p>The new technology is aimed at allowing researchers to more easily build tiny machines, biomedical sensors, optical computers, solar panels, and other devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/bubble-pen-can-precisely-write-patterns-with-nanoparticles-as-small-as-1-nanometer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allows for more easily building tiny machines, biomedical sensors, optical computers, solar panels, and other devices \u2014 no complex clean room required; portable version planned. Illustration of the bubble-pen pattern-writing process using an optically controlled microbubble on a plasmonic substrate. The small blue spheres are colloidal nanoparticles. (credit: Linhan Lin et al.\/Nano Letters) Researchers in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1694,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-electronics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63236,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20808\/revisions\/63236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}