Should we eat our words after pooh poohing the imminent arrival of tabletop nanofactories last week? Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a desktop nanoparticle factory, using nothing more complex than a domestic ultrasound humidifier.
Perhaps not, the chemists in the Cientifica labs have been quick to point out that most of their molecular assembly work, or chemistry as they bizarrely insist on calling it, has long been conducted on the table, or bench top.