News tagged with superstructures

Bristly Spheres as Capsules

Chemistry / Polymers

Mar 06, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Amphiphilic molecules, which have one water-friendly (hydrophilic) end and one water-repellant (hydrophobic) end, spontaneously aggregate in aqueous solutions to make superstructures like ...

Sophisticated nano-structures assembled with magnets (Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Feb 18, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (10) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do Saturn and flowers have in common? As shapes, both possess certain symmetries that are easily recognizable in the natural world. Now, at an extremely small level, researchers from ...

Molecules wrestle for supremacy in creation of superstructures

Chemistry / Materials Science

Aug 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at the University of Liverpool has found how mirror-image molecules gain control over each other and dictate the physical state of superstructures.

Gold nanorods assemble themselves into rings

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Mar 09, 2007 | 4.6 / 5 (42) | 0

Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny building blocks known as gold nanorods spontaneously assemble themselves into ring-like superstructures.

Bio-inspired assembly of nanoparticle building blocks

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Nov 27, 2006 | 4.5 / 5 (644) | 0

Chemists at Rice University have discovered how to assemble gold and silver nanoparticle building blocks into larger structures based on a novel method that harkens back to one of nature's oldest known chemical ...

Oscillating Pattern in Nanoparticle Crystallisation

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jun 30, 2006 | 4.4 / 5 (9) | 0

In order to survive, biological systems need to form patterns and organise themselves. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany, have now combined self-organisation ...

Nanothermometer: Tiny gold spheres with a corona of semiconductor nanoparticles show temperature-dependent glow

Nanotechnology /

Oct 25, 2005 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Small, smaller, nano - nanoscopic particles that can be arranged into controlled superstructures are the stuff from which future "intelligent" materials with new functions could be made. American researchers at the University ...

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