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Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate, and Christoph Gerber invented the atomic force microscope. It can view, measure, and manipulate materials down to a single nanometer or less.
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Don Eigler and Erhard Schweizer, using the scanning tunneling microscope, manipulated 35 individual xenon atoms to spell out the IBM logo.
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Sumio Iijima discovered carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes are entirely composed of carbon, but are tubular in shape.They exhibit extraordinary properties in terms of strength, electrical and thermal conductivity.
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Moungi Bawendi invented a method for controlled synthesis of nanocrystals. This invention paves the way for applications ranging from computing to high-efficiency photovoltaics and lighting.
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Chad Mirkin at Northwestern University invented dip-pen nanolithography. this invention lead to manufacturable, reproducible writing of electronic circuits.
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Researchers at Cornell University Wilson Ho and Hyojune Lee discovered the secrets of chemical bonding by assembling a molecule with a scanning tunneling microscope.
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James Tour and colleagues at Rice University build a nanoscale car with phenylene ethynylene, alkynyl axles and four spherical C60 fullerene wheels. Traveling on a gold surface, it's wheels moved as a responce to heat at 300°C.
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IBM workers used a silicon tip measuring only a few nanometers to create a map of the world one-one-thousandth the size of a grain of salt in only in 2 minutes and 23 seconds!
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Nadrian Seeman and colleagues at New York University created several DNA-like robotic nanoscale assembly devices. One is a process for creating 3D DNA structures using synthetic sequences of DNA crystals that can be programmed to self-assemble.
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Stanford researchers develop the first carbon nanotube computer.
