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 ...

One of the holy grails of materials science is to emulate nature's ability to form robust, complex self-assembling materials that can then create structures capable of a wide range of functions.

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 4D printed object is like a 3D printed object, but it changes shape or self-assembles when its environment changes. [Teaching Tech] has been reading about this technology and decided to try to ...

A new study, reported in Advanced Materials ("Eradication of Large Tumors by Nanoscale Drug Self-Assembly") and led by researchers from Southern Medical University in China, explores a solution by ...

Molecular self-assembly is the spontaneous association of molecules, through non covalent bonds and under equilibrium conditions, into stable, structurally well-defined aggregates. The use of ...

This entire self-assembly process is spontaneous. The researchers also discovered that colloidal molecules with various symmetries formed depending on the polymer mixing ratio.

Japan’s medicines regulator has approved the first vaccine based on self-assembling RNA, a spin on the mRNA technology used in current shots, which is designed to deliver greater efficacy with a ...