To make continuous pharmaceutical biomanufacturing a standard practice, the industry needs new, more-capable bacterial strains. Researchers at Rice University are helping address that challenge with ...

The field of liquid crystalline materials has emerged as a dynamic arena in which self-assembly processes play a pivotal role in generating complex, often hierarchical, architectures. Owing to the ...

A model showing how a simple layered material (orange and blue) transforms into a complex Archimedean-structured composite material when it freezes around a template (gray). (Image source: Paul Braun, ...

A team of physicists has created a new way to self-assemble particles -- an advance that offers new promise for building complex and innovative materials at the microscopic level. A team of physicists ...

Researchers at Waseda University developed a more efficient method to create self-healing films using organosiloxane and polydimethylsiloxane layers. The process involves depositing a precursor ...

Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have created a molecule that naturally forms p/n junctions, structures that are ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In nature, wood, shells, and other structural materials are lightweight, strong, and tough. These multiscale structures enable a series of outstanding performances using a limited ...

Scientists have taken a step closer to replicating nature's processes of self-assembly. The study describes the synthetic construction of a tiny, self-assembled crystal known as a 'pyrochlore,' which ...

Self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules provides a way to make nanoscale (and larger) supramolecular structures including micelles, ribbons, sheets and aggregates that are important in biomedical ...

A rapid condensation process creates uniform porous oxides with conductive nanomaterials, boosting lithium storage performance while enabling full solvent recovery and sustainable material production.