Mechanical nanometric machining

Deterministic mechanical nanometric machining. This method utilizes fixed and controlled tools, which can specify the profiles of three-dimensional (3D) components by a well-defined tool surface and path. The method can remove materials in amounts as small as tens of nanometers. It typically includes diamond turning, miCTomilling and nano/microgrinding, etc. 

Table 7.7 summarizes the comparison of nanometric machining and conventional machining in all major aspects of cutting mechanics and physics. 

Flexoelectricity is a basic mechano-electric effect that enables the nanometre-thick membranes of living matter to function like soft machines, thus converting the electrical stimuli of the hving world into mechanical ones, and vice versa. It also allows, by using model nanomembranes, the construction of mechanosensors and actuators for nanoionics applications. 

---