News tagged with self assembly
Scientists Give a Hand(edness) to the Search for Alien Life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Visiting aliens may be the stuff of legend, but if a scientific team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is right, we may be able to find extraterrestrial life even ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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New self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself
Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now some MIT scientists ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 05, 2010 |
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Self-assembling solar panels a step closer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists Robert J. Knuesel and Heiko O. Jacobs of the University of Minnesota have developed a way to make tiny solar cells self-assemble.
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Single-Molecule Magnets Open New Door for Information Technology
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research by scientists in Italy and France shows that that single molecules have the ability to store information via their magnetic state. Their work is a first step toward a new generation ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Self-assembling vehicles take flight (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Switzerland are developing miniature vehicles that can self-assemble and then take off vertically and fly as a stable array.
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Scientists 'photograph' nano-particle self-assembly
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have imaged the self-assembly of nano-particles, unveiling the blueprint for building designer molecular machines atom-by-atom.
Jan 04, 2010 |
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Spiders at the nanoscale: Molecules that behave like robots
A team of scientists from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have programmed an autonomous molecular "robot" made ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 12, 2010 |
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Microwave oven key to self-assembly process meeting semiconductor industry need
Thanks to a microwave oven, the fundamental nanotechnology process of self assembly may soon replace the lithographic processing use to make the ubiquitous semi-conductor chips.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 25, 2010 |
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From butterflies' wings to bank notes -- how nature's colors could cut bank fraud
Scientists have discovered a way of mimicking the stunningly bright and beautiful colours found on the wings of tropical butterflies. The findings could have important applications in the security printing ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 30, 2010 |
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Nanotech Batteries for a New Energy Future
(PhysOrg.com) -- In order to save money and energy, many people are purchasing hybrid electric cars or installing solar panels on the roofs of their homes. But both have a problem -- the technology to store ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Researchers find new route to nano self-assembly
(PhysOrg.com) -- If the promise of nanotechnology is to be fulfilled, nanoparticles will have to be able to make something of themselves. An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have found a new way to use a synthetic form of DNA to control the assembly of nanoparticles — this time resulting ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Mechanical engineering at the molecular level: Self-assembly of nano-rotors (w/ Video)
German scientists from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen have managed to direct the self-assembly of rod-shaped molecules into rotors only few nanometers in size. The tiny systems serve the study of forces ...
Nov 23, 2010 |
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Nanoscale origami from DNA
Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and Harvard University have thrown the lid off a new toolbox for building nanoscale structures out of DNA, with complex twisting and curving shapes. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Single-crystal films could advance solar cells (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers have developed a new method to create a patterned single-crystal thin film of semiconductor material that could lead to more efficient photovoltaic cells and batteries.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Self-assembly
Self-assembly is a term used to describe processes in which a disordered system of pre-existing components forms an organized structure or pattern as a consequence of specific, local interactions among the components themselves, without external direction.
Self-assembly can be classified as either static or dynamic. In static self-assembly, the ordered state forms as a system approaches equilibrium, reducing its free energy. However in dynamic self-assembly, patterns of pre-existing components organized by specific local interactions are not commonly described as "self-assembled" by scientists in the associated disciplines. These structures are better described as "self-organized".
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