Nano-Manipulation

Dear Colleagues,

The art of nano-manipulation organically penetrates into many advanced fields of science and technology, such as nanoelectronics, nanobiology, nanophotonics, etc. In recent decades, many new nanomaterials have been discovered and new revolutionary fields of research and applications have appeared, but the handling of an individual nano-object often remains a difficult task, especially in cases where 3D nanomanipulation is needed. Despite the fact that dual-beam scanning electron/ion microscopes, usually equipped with nano-manipulation systems, are currently widespread in scientific laboratories, it takes a lot of time to select, capture, transport, and install a separate nanoscale object in a new location, especially when working with an insulator, soft matter or a biological nanoobject.

In general, we can define nano-manipulation as the art of the controlled moving of nanoobjects sized at least in one dimension less than 100 nm, or the moving of an object by a nanosized tool, or the controlled moving of an object with a precision within the nanometer range. Recent admired achievements in these fields are the design, by bottom-up nanofabrication, of semiconductor nanowire-based ultrasensitive biosensors for the direct detection of protein markers of such infections as Chagas disease or coronavirus, the bottom-up nanointegration of the first carbon nanotube computer, the demonstration of mechanical 3D nanomanipulation using nanosized thermally controlled shape memory nanotweezers, etc.

This Special Issue of Nanomaterials devoted to nanomanipulation is intended to attract researchers and engineers in a wide variety of emerging fields, including smart nanomaterial development, mechanical nanotools and nano-manipulation system design and new approaches to the study of nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing based on 3D nano-manipulation and bottom-up nanointegration. The Special Issue also hopes to attract studies on the current progress in the development of practical nanorobotic systems which have recently succeeded in the demonstration of automatic processes of 3D nano-manipulation, nanointegration and nanomanufacturing.

Dr. Victor V. Koledov
Guest Editor

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• nano-manipulation
• nanomanufacturing
• nanomeasurements
• nanotweezers
• bottom-up nanointegration
• nanosensors
• nanotransistors
• nanorobotics