Novel fabrication technique for making nanostructures

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; MA, USA) have developed a way to fabricate nanoscale 3D objects of nearly any shape. The technique also allows them to pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials that include metals, quantum dots and DNA. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; MA, USA) used a polymer scaffold which they molded into the required shape and structure using lasers. After attaching other useful materials to the scaffold, they shrank it, generating structures one thousandth the volume of the original. “It's a way of putting nearly any kind of material into a...