Nitrogen-vacancy center in Silicon Carbide, a promising candidate for use as a qubit in a quantum computer.

Source: Defects for quantum computing, Van de Walle Computational Materials Research Group, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

An image of the phi29 nanomotor illustrates the ring of six pRNA molecules processing a strand of DNA through its center.

Source (Purdue University)

Real-time imaging of nanoparticles (green) coated with polyethylene-glycol (PEG), a hydrophilic, non-toxic polymer, penetrate within normal rodent brain. Without the PEG coating, negatively charged, hydrophobic particles (red) of a similar size do not penetrate.

Credit: Elizabeth Nance, Kurt Sailor, Graeme Woodworth.

Source: Coated nanoparticles move easily into brain tissue, The blood brain barrier (working group) at Johns Hopkins University.

An illustrated cross-section of a nanotube UB chemists created. The green structures are negatively charged carboxylic acid groups, which help trap positively charged particles.

(Source, University at Buffalo)

With Ohio Supercomputer Center access, Sadhan Jana at the University of Akron simulated the equilibrium state of organization of 12 organic tie-molecules on the surface of MWCNT. The red dots represent oxygen, white represent hydrogen, and gray represent carbon atoms in tie molecules.

Source: Jana investigating the potential of carbon nanotubes for industry, Ohio Supercomputer Center.

Photograph of the amplifier chip, attached to a circuit board with thin gold wirebonds.

Credit: Columbia Engineering

Source: Penn Works With Columbia Engineers to Increase Speed of Single-molecule Measurements, University of Pennsylvania.