Another achievement by Chinese scientists has been published in the international academic journal Nature Communications.
According to Xinhua News Agency's official Weibo account, Tao Hu's team at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently collaborated with Xia Xiaoxia and Qian Zhigang from Shanghai Jiao Tong University to 3D print nanorobots using recombinant spider silk protein, achieving a processing precision of 14 nanometers. This technology is expected to be used in fields such as intelligent bionic sensing and drug delivery nanorobots.
The report also described a future use case: a small fish resembling a whisker can swim in the blood sugar environment of the human body, and automatically degrade to release drugs when the environment reaches the set pH and other conditions...
The Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, further disclosed on its website that its team has innovatively developed a recombinant spider silk protein photoresist, achieving direct writing of true three-dimensional nanofunctional devices with molecular-level precision. This technology achieves a processing precision of up to 14 nm, close to the single-molecule size of natural silk protein (~10 nm), representing an order of magnitude improvement over previous technologies.
Netizens also left comments after seeing it:
"I don't understand it, but it sounds impressive. Congratulations to the scientists!"
"That's incredibly awesome, amazing!"
"We hope it will be put into use as soon as possible to benefit mankind."
