When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

French engineer André Buhart has published the plans and open-source software to create a DIY "solar energy router" to manage PV overproduction. Depending on the configuration, the device can direct ...

We have developed a simple method to fabricate nanoscale masks by using self-assembly Ni clusters formed through a rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process. The density and dimensions of the Ni ...

A significant advancement in molecular engineering has produced a large, hollow spherical shell nanostructure through the self-assembly of peptides and metal ions, report researchers from Japan ...

However, unlike natural self-assembly processes, which terminate once the structure reaches a certain size, artificial ones tend to continue indefinitely. For example, the protein shell of a virus ...

The scientists have taken a major step forwards in tackling one of the greatest abiding challenges in chemistry, by learning how to programme the self-assembly of molecules in such a way that the end ...

In recent past years, investigation of hierarchical self-assembly for constructing artificial functional materials has attracted considerable attention. Discrete metallacycles based on coordination ...

In the Maldives, the government is supportive of MIT Self-Assembly Lab and Invena’s work, but that hasn’t yet translated into financial support, Sarah Dole, the co-founder of Invena, told CNN.

The goal of inverse self-assembly is to design interparticle interactions capable of assembling the units into a desired target structure. The effective assembly of complex structures often requires ...

Now, the pair says, assembly theory provides a consistent and mathematically precise account of the apparent historical contingency of how things get made — why, for example, you can’t develop rockets ...