Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have used a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer level in designing the first nanofluidic device with complex 3-D surfaces.

Among potential applications: processing nanomaterials for manufacturing; separation and measuring of complex nanoparticle mixtures for drug delivery, gene therapy and nanoparticle toxicology; and isolation and confinement of individual DNA strands for scientific study.