The study was published online on July 27 in Nature Communications("Ultrafast Spontaneous Emission Source Using Plasmonic Nanoantennas"."
and could hugely advance the development of nanomachines. Ordinarily, friction exists wherever two surfaces meet
The most direct application of this research is the creation of longer-lasting nanomachines made out of single molecules,
because it one of the limiting factors for nanomachines, but there has been relatively little progress in actually controlling friction at any scale,
This knowledge could help them to engineer nanomachines that aren worn constantly down by friction, and could also help them to control proteins and other biological components.
and motor proteins, said Schaetz. ust imagine a nanomachine where we could control friction to enhance contact for traction,
All nanotunnels together then form a sieve. Leaving the tunnel closed at one end leaves open the possibility of creating molds for nano structures.
In that case a DNA-string is pulled through one of these nanochannels after which the building blocks of DNA the nucleotides can be analysed subsequently.
Living cells are real nanomachines that can detect and process many signals and respond to them.
Future research may include work to improve the system with devices that combine the hyperbolic metamaterial with nanoantennas
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