• A new way to make microstructured surfaces

    The Mechanosynthesis Group’s work on strain-engineered CNT growth in Nature Communications was featured in MIT News. Along with John Hart, the research team included Michael de Volder of Cambridge University; Sei Jin Park, a visiting doctoral student from the University of Michigan; and Sameh Tawfick, a former postdoc at MIT who is now at the University of Illinois…

  • Michael De Volder begins as Lecturer at University of Cambridge

    Michael De Volder, Mechanosynthesis postdoc alum, begins as Lecturer at the University of Cambridge

  • CNT microfabrication process chosen as JMM “Highlight of 2011”

    Our group’s work on CNT microfabrication was honored as one of the Highlights of 2011 by the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering.  The article is entitled “Fabrication and electrical integration of robust carbon nanotube micropillars by self-directed elastocapillary densification.” As noted by Ian Forbes, PhD, publisher, “the chosen articles were identified as some of the highest…

  • Michael de Volder wins first place in "Science as Art"

    In connection with the 2011 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, Michael de Volder won first place in the “Science as Art” competition for his work with CNT using capillary forming.

  • Hierarchical carbon nanowire microarchitectures made by plasma-assisted pyrolysis of photoresist

    M. De Volder, R. Vansweevelt, P. Wagner, D. Reynaerts, C. Van Hoof, and A. J. Hart.  ACS Nano (in press), 2011. [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn201976d] We present a new approach for the fabrication and integration of vertically aligned forests of amorphous carbon nanowires (CNWs), using only standard lithography, oxygen plasma treatment, and thermal processing. The simplicity and scalability…