During the 7th International Conference on MicroManufacturing in March, conference co-chairs Jian Cao and Kornel Ehmann, along with a few of their students, provided an overview of their research and work stations at the university's micromanufacturing lab.

A 285µm-long racecar has been fabricated in record time via ultrahigh-precision 3-D printing at Vienna University of Technology.

Feb. 20, 2012—The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, today announced that researchers at the university's ARC Center for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology successfully created a working transistor the size of one atom.

Stanford University researchers recently demonstrated a new stretchable, transparent skin-like sensor developed using carbon nanotubes that bend and act as springs, according to a university news release. The flexible sensor "can be stretched to more than twice its original length and bounce back perfectly to its original shape," the researchers reported.