MIT’s ‘Implosion Fabrication’ Shrinks Objects to Create Nanoscale Versions

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3 min readDec 18, 2018

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by Ryan Whitwam

Credit: Daniel Oran/MIT News

The smaller you want something to be, the harder it is to build. This is the barrier holding back many technologies from batteries to optics, but a new technique developed at MIT could make nanoscale materials easier to produce by shrinking larger designs. The approach uses a type of absorbent scaffold to produce 3D…

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