Future Watch: The concept of a mass-produced structure with dimensions measured in atoms helps explain why researchers are turning to molecular self-assembly, in which circuits literally grow ...

Scientists have just developed a way to direct the self-assembly of multiple molecular patterns within a single material, producing new nanoscale architectures. This is a significant conceptual ...

Molecular assembly is a fundamental concept in nanotechnology that involves the controlled arrangement of molecules or molecular components into ordered structures with desired properties and ...

Scientists have used DNA's self-assembling properties to engineer intricate moiré superlattices at the nanometer ...

Posted: Feb 23, 2007: Molecular self-assembly of nanowires (Nanowerk Spotlight) Strong and highly directional hydrogen-bonding networks are of fundamental importance in nature.Their efficiency in ...

By integrating self-assembly with advanced nanofabrication techniques, we can pave the way for new applications in nanotechnology, overcoming the limitations of traditional methods." ...

The self-assembly of molecular components to obtain systems and materials with structures on the nanometer scale (1 nanometer = 1 billionth of a meter) is one of the basic processes of nanotechnology.

Creating periodic nanostructures is vital for progress in material science and nanotechnology. Traditional methods often ...

Researchers are creating new moiré materials at the nanometer scale using advanced DNA nanotechnology. DNA moiré ...

Many fundamental processes of life, and their synthetic counterparts in nanotechnology, are based on the autonomous assembly ...

Researchers from Tohoku University and Kyoto University have successfully developed a DNA-based molecular controller that autonomously directs the assembly and disassembly of molecular robots.

Molecular self-assembly, whereby molecules position themselves into defined arrangements, is commonplace in biological systems and nanotechnology. But researchers at MIT are working on so called ...