Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

Molecular self-assembly, which refers to the spontaneous assembly of precursor molecules to form nanostructured objects 1, is controlled by the intrinsic properties of the molecules and their ...

As technology continues to advance, scientists and engineers are constantly searching for more efficient and effective ways to create new materials and devices. One increasingly popular method is self ...

Design-for-assembly (DFA) and design-for-manufacture (DFM) techniques can be applied to products assembled manually or automatically or manufactured by specific techniques, such as machining, die ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict.

Researchers uncover geometric principles governing how particles self-assemble, solving a long-standing challenge in ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...

Biologists have developed a computer modeling technique that lets them use cryo-electron microscopy to identify multiple possible structures that a protein can take. Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) ...