Most technical functional units are built bit by bit according to a well-designed construction plan. The components are sequentially put in place by humans or machines. Life, however, is based on a different principle. It ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 19, 2020
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NUS scientists have developed a method for self-assembly of hexagonal organic porous structures on molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2) film to create ordered nanostructures.
Nanomaterials
Jul 11, 2019
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Researchers have identified the weak molecular forces that hold together a tiny, self-assembling box with powerful possibilities. The study demonstrates a practical application of a force common in biological systems and ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 31, 2018
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What's better than platinum?
Materials Science
May 31, 2018
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Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a printing technique using cells and molecules normally found in natural tissues to create constructs that resemble biological structures.
Materials Science
Feb 15, 2018
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Daniel Packwood, Junior Associate Professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), is improving methods for constructing tiny "nanomaterials" using a "bottom-up" approach called "molecular ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 14, 2017
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Researchers propose "Oritatami" as a mathematical model of the cotranscriptional folding of RNA in order to widen applications of RNA origami—one of the most significant experimental breakthroughs in molecular self-assembly.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 6, 2016
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Supramolecular chemistry is the science that is concerned with molecular self-assembly: chemical building blocks which, when you combine them, naturally form larger ordered structures. In this case they are held together ...
Biochemistry
Apr 29, 2015
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Can self-assembly based technologies offer advantages beyond conventional top-down lithography approaches?
Nanophysics
Jun 5, 2014
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A unique collaboration between chemists and mathematicians at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) has led to a new imaging technique that enables the study of molecular self-assembly with an unprecedented level of detail. ...
Nanophysics
May 5, 2014
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