These mats can be the basis of small devices and instruments.

Capillography (from the Latin capillus, “hair”, and the Greek graphein, “to write”) is a recently conceived technique for forming mats of nanofibers into useful patterns. The concept was inspired by experiments on carpetlike mats of multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Capillography may have the potential to be a less-expensive, less- time-consuming alternative to electron- beam lithography as a means of nanoscale patterning for the fabrication of small devices and instruments.