Researchers are also exploring the use of self-assembly to create new types of nanomaterials. By combining different components in specific ways, they hope to create materials with novel properties ...

Self-healing coatings are advanced materials that can repair damage, such as scratches and cracks on their own. Researchers have developed an efficient method for preparing self-healing films ...

Bottom-up methods involve the assembly of nanomaterials from atomic or molecular components through processes such as chemical vapor deposition, sol-gel synthesis, or self-assembly. Nanomaterials can ...

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 ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have for the first time used DNA to help create 3D electronically operational devices ...

Self-assembly is the process by which an organized structure spontaneously forms from individual components, as a result of specific, local interactions among the components. When the constitutive ...

Fabrication processes of top-down and bottom-up approaches will be discussed, including molecular and material self-assembly. We will study surface phenomena and surface energy that are of critical ...

Polysiloxane materials, such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-based elastomers, exhibit a self-healing capability by the ...