IBM seeks better ways to assemble microchip components at the nanoscale without the need to replace existing chip-making technology.

万国商业机器公司（IBM）在寻找更好的方法，在不需要取代现有芯片制造技术的情况下，在纳米尺度上组装微芯片组件。

So McAlpine’s team created nanoscale piezoelectric devices.

所以，麦奥平团队发明了纳米级压电装置。

DNA, Proteins, And Peptides Could Help Construct New Nanoscale electronics.

蛋白质和肽能帮助我们构建崭新的纳米尺度电子学。

Graphene could be a sort of nanoscale "electronic breadboard", says Sheehan.

石墨烯可能成为纳米级的“电子电路试验板”，希恩说。

Nanoscale or no, it rapidly became clear just how useful memristors might be.

不管是不是纳米尺寸，记忆电阻器有多大用处迅速变得清晰起来。

This month saw two critical nanoscale computing breakthroughs, both by U.S. researchers.

这个月我们看到了两个纳米技术的关键性突破，都是有美国研究员完成。

The thin, nanoscale wedges strongly absorb blue light at the tip and red light at the base.

这种薄的纳米尺度的楔子形状吸收能力强，顶部吸收蓝光，底部吸收红光。

For example, gold is nonreactive but at the nanoscale it becomes a catalyst for reactions.

例如，金不会起反应，但是在纳米尺度上它就成为了反应的催化剂。

Scientists are already able to make objects seem invisible with this material, albeit on a nanoscale.

科学家们已经可以用这种物质将物体变得隐形，尽管是在纳米尺度上。

The results of Abdolvand's work may lead to the integration of nanoscale optical and electronic components.

Abdolvand的工作结果可能会引发纳米级光学与电子复合材料的整合。

Some researchers are turning to exotic optical effects that emerge at the nanoscale to solve this conundrum.

一些研究者转而把目光投向其特别的，出现在纳米尺度范围内的光学效果来解决这个难题。

Nanoscale processes in medicine -- new approaches to visualizing, trapping and releasing nutrients and drugs.

医药的纳米级处理——设想、捕捉、释放营养和药物的新方法。

To design these computers of the future, it is important to be able to control nanoscale strain in the processors.

为了设计未来的电脑，控制处理器在纳米尺度下的变形是必须且重要的一点。

Now we have a biomaterial that we can program at the nanoscale to address questions in biophysics or nanochemistry.

现在我们有了一个可以在纳米尺度上进行编程设计的生物材料，用以解决生物物理或纳米化学方面的问题。

"Materials actually get stronger as the dimensions are reduced to the nanoscale," said team member Lorenzo Valdevit.

小组成员Lorenzo Valdevit说：“当尺寸下降到纳米级别时，事实上，材料强度会增大。”

Another possibility is that this combination of cold atoms with nanoscale structures could lead to new states of matter.

冷却原子与纳米结构结合的另一种可能性，就是产生新的物态。

This could lead to a new generation of nanoscale devices that can manipulate noise, just as existing devices manipulate electrons.

就好像现有的设备操纵电子，新一代的纳米设备将可以操纵噪音。

Using neutrons to better understand food is a new field but is ideal to pin down sub-nanoscale detail in molecules, says Teixeira.

将中子应用到食品研究中是一个新的领域，但要得到相应分子的亚纳米级信息还需时日，特谢拉说。

Production of such nanoscale wires need to be a kind of organic molecules and gallium salt mixture placed in a super-clean silver foil.

制作这种纳米级的金属线需要将一种有机分子和镓盐的混合物置于一个超级干净的银薄片上。

Existing ways of printing devices at the nanoscale tend to be complex and expensive, and more appropriate for making silicon chips.

以纳米技术领域的打印设备的现有方式来制作硅片往往是复杂与昂贵的，而且更为合适。

Future generations of nanotechnology will use sophisticated nanoscale machinery to construct powerful products with molecular precision.

未来的纳米技术将利用复杂的纳米尺度的机械来构建强大的具有分子精度的产品。

As a candidate logic switch for nanoscale memory circuits and similar devices, the silver whisker switch has several attractive features.

作为纳米级存储电路及相似设备的一项候选逻辑开关，这种银触须开关具备以下几个非常有吸引力的特征。

Computer graphic of nanoscale toothed gears made from DNA (left) and electron micrographs of the actual nanostructures. Photograph: Science/AAAS

由DNA制成的纳米齿轮的计算机图形（左）以及实际纳米结构的电子显微图。

By replicating this nanoscale topography, MIT scientists have developed an adhesive that can seal wounds or patch a hole caused by a stomach ulcer.

通过复制这种纳米级别的拓扑结构，MIT的科学家们研发出一种可以粘合伤口或封住胃溃疡引起的穿孔的粘合剂。