She joined Rice University in 1989 where she now heads their Nanoengineering Unit.

CNN: Biography: Naomi Halas

But Joel Schindall and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think they can do better than that using nanoengineering.

ECONOMIST: Electricity storage

Physicists at the University of New South Wales have created a transistor composed of a single atom, which is an amazing feat of nanoengineering, and could provide a better foundation for scalable quantum computing.

FORBES: Scientists Create A One-Atom Transistor