Title:	Nanogrippers
Authors:	Yoda, Minami Garden, Jean-Luc Bourgeois, Olivier Haque, Aeraj Kumar, Aloke Deyhle, Hans Hieber, Simone Müller, Bert Cano-Sarabia, Mary Maspoch, Daniel Sobolev, Konstantin Sanchez, Florence Jabbari, Esmaiel Nevill, J Tanner Malleo, Daniele Bøggild, Peter Chen, Wei Wang, Chunlei Bhushan, Bharat Palacio, Manuel LB Nagpure, Shrikant C Lira-Cantú, Mónica González-Valls, Irene Bhiladvala, Rustom B Lewinski, Nastassja A Wright, Matthew Martino, Paola Allia, Paolo Chiolerio, Alessandro Gleghorn, Jason P Nelson, Celeste M Descrovi, Emiliano Ballarini, Mirko Frascella, Francesca Neuhauser, Daniel Arntsen, Christopher Lopata, Kenneth A Dong, Lixin Tao, Xinyong Fan, Zheng Zhang, Li Zhang, Xiaobin Nelson, Bradley J Tsuda, Soichiro Martel, Sylvain Xu, Didi Merkel, Timothy J DeSimone, Joseph M Ciacchi, Lucio Colombi Köppen, Susan Nosonovsky, Michael Jang, Dongchan Li, Jason To, Steve You, Lidan Sun, Yu Lunelli, Lorenzo Potrich, Cristina Pasquardini, Laura Pederzolli, Cecilia Lombardi, Mariangela Zhou, Menghan He, Jian Boarino, Luca Amato, Giampiero Gebeshuber, Ille C Lee, David W Bianco, Stefano Chiodoni, Angelica Gerbaldi, Claudio Quaglio, Marzia Toma, Andrea Zaccaria, Remo Proietti Krahne, Roman Alabastri, Alessandro Coluccio, Maria Laura Das, Gobind Liberale, Carlo Angelis, Francesco Francardi, Marco Mecarini, Federico Gentile, Francesco Accardo, Angelo Manna, Liberato Fabrizio, Enzo Rivolo, Paola Ma, Kuo-Sheng Dai, Lu Qi, Yongfen Jia, Lixin Yu, Wei Du, Jie Chaparala, Satish C Bhatia, Vikram Sinha, Nipun Rinaldi, Matteo Muthukumar, V Sai Podila, Ramakrishna Anand, Benoy Sai, S Siva Sankara K, Venkataramaniah Philip, Reji Rao, Apparao M
Keywords:	Nanotweezers
Issue Date:	2012
Publisher:	Springer Dordrecht
Citation:	Book Chapter published in the book “Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology”, Edited by Bharat Bhushan, 2012, p1552-1569
Abstract:	Nanogrippers are micro- or nanoactuators equipped with high-precision dual end-effectors, capable of applying controllable, opposing forces on nanoscale objects, and thereby allowing these to be lifted free from a surface, held in a well-defined position, moved to another position, and placed in a controlled way.
Description:	Nanogrippers allow structures with at least one dimension being of order 100 nm or smaller to be manipulated in a predictable manner. Such grippers consist of one or more actuators, which determine the gap between two or more end-effectors. The actuators are operated through variations of a physical quantity, which is typically an electrical current or voltage, but might also be the temperature, a magnetic field, or even light. While there is a wide selection of actuators available for conventional microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), nearly all nanogrippers which have been demonstrated in practical manipulation of nanostructures so...
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/8500
ISBN:	978-90-481-9750-7
ISSN:	978-90-481-9751-4 (online)
Alternative Location:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9751-4_228
Copyright:	2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Appears in Collections:	Books and Book Chapters

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