One increasingly popular method is self-assembly. This process involves the spontaneous organization of individual components into a larger, functional structure without the need for external control ...

IBM has introduced a self-assembly process into chip manufacture — a first for the semiconductor industry. The company reports that the new chips consume 15% less energy than conventional devices.

The role of chirality and particle shape in self-assembly As nanotechnology advances, it is becoming possible to design new and more complicated structures from a growing repertoire of building blocks ...

Exploiting an ingenious combination of photochemical (i.e., light-induced) reactions and self-assembly processes, a team led ...

Functional materials can be created with rational self-assembly of building blocks over a broad range of length scales, from small molecules and polymers to nanoparticles and nanowires. Northwestern ...

A research team has succeeded in inserting a filiform molecule into the cavity of a ring-shaped molecule, according to a high ...

Researchers developed a method to control the formation of molecular complexes using visible light. The results open new ...

We combine topology and active matter paradigms in an effort to achieve topology-dictated nonequilibrium self-assembly of topologically distinct active particles. Active colloids are a distinct ...

A group of researchers from China's Hangzhou Dianzi University has developed an inverted perovskite solar cell based on a hole transport layer (HTL) with a self-assembled monolayer (SAM ...