Seeing is believing when it comes to nanoparticle self-assembly. A team of engineers is observing the interactions of colloidal gold nanoparticles inside tiny aquariumlike sample containers to ...

A technique whereby self-assembling nanoparticle arrays can form a highly ordered thin film over macroscopic distances in one minute has been designed by scientists. Nanoparticles function as ...

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

Here we show that mixtures of diblock copolymers and either cadmium selenide- or ferritin-based nanoparticles exhibit cooperative, coupled self-assembly on the nanoscale.

This self-assembly of nanoparticle chains had been detected before in different studies, but this technique allowed researchers, for the first time, to observe the phenomenon as it occurred.

Scientists at Glasgow University have imaged the self-assembly of nanoparticles, unveiling the blueprint for building designer molecular machines atom-by-atom.

A research team including members from the University of Michigan have unveiled a new observational technique that's sensitive to the dynamics of the intrinsic quantum jiggles of materials, or phonons ...

Furst’s project, “Kinetics of Nanoparticle Self-Assembly in Directing Fields,” will use facilities onboard the space station (ISS) to study the assembly of ellipsoidal magnetic particles in the ...

TRAPPING nanoparticles in cages made of DNA could finally allow them to self-assemble into transistors, metamaterials and even tiny robots. The technique should prevent the nanoparticles clumping ...

An important step towards realization of nanodevices is self-organized nanopatterning of functional structures. A new technique, which might be called ‘chemical lithography’, enables the regular ...

Seeing is believing when it comes to nanoparticle self-assembly. A team of University of Illinois engineers is observing the interactions of colloidal gold nanoparticles inside tiny aquarium-like ...