{"id":240826,"date":"2026-07-14T12:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/computer-guided-electricity-rapidly-transforms-flat-nanofilms-into-3d-shapes-on-demand"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:18:50","slug":"computer-guided-electricity-rapidly-transforms-flat-nanofilms-into-3d-shapes-on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/computer-guided-electricity-rapidly-transforms-flat-nanofilms-into-3d-shapes-on-demand","title":{"rendered":"Computer-guided electricity rapidly transforms flat nanofilms into 3D shapes on demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computer-guided-electricity-rapidly-transforms-flat-nanofilms-into-3d-shapes-on-demand2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have developed a method to form dome-shaped bumps on nanofilms in water using a computer-guided electron beam. The bumps form within 10 seconds and can be flattened, reshaped or repositioned as needed.<\/p>\n<p>This method may enable computer-guided manipulation of nanomachines for uses such as microscale touch sensing, guiding cellular growth and direct assembly of colloidal particles. The findings were published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsami.5c22563\" target=\"_blank\"><i>ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Existing approaches each have drawbacks: Light-based techniques typically take 60 seconds or more per shape change, while electrical methods rely on fixed electrodes that restrict where reshaping can occur and limit the size of the change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have developed a method to form dome-shaped bumps on nanofilms in water using a computer-guided electron beam. The bumps form within 10 seconds and can be flattened, reshaped or repositioned as needed. This method may enable computer-guided manipulation of nanomachines for uses such as microscale touch sensing, guiding cellular [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240826","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}