A team led by Rebecca Schulman, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, recently published findings on research done involving miniature pipes two million times smaller than an ant. The team’s research focused on ensuring the pipes self-assemble and self-repair in the case of a leak. The plumbing, which is the smallest in the world, could eventually be utilized to deliver drugs, proteins and the like to targeted cells within the human body. The nanotubes are roughly seven nanometers in diameter and about the length of a dust particle. Yi Li, a postdoctoral graduate of the Johns Hopkins Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering program, co-led the study, along with Dr. Brice Ménard of the Johns Hopkins Department of Physics and Astronomy. The study was published Sept. 7, 2022, on Science Advances.