Self Assembly

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has succeeded in depositing nitrogen-containing organic molecules as a highly ordered layer on silicon. This opens up new perspectives for the development of more powerful semiconductor materials, which can be used, for example, in computers, photovoltaics or more

Using machine learning methods, researchers at TU Graz can predict the structure formation of functionalized molecules at the interfaces of hybrid materials. Now they have also succeeded in looking behind the driving forces of this structure formation. The production of nanomaterials involves self-a more

A team from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) used cryo electron microscopy to detect regular, two-dimensional structures in the form of Pascal triangles in a shock frozen protein material.  The samples have been synthesized by a Chinese research group. The method of cryo electron microscopy has the po more

One-dimensional (1D) helical nanofibers were yielded through the self-assembly of an achiral all-conjugated diblock copolymer, poly(3-hexylthiophene)-b-poly[3-(6-hydroxyl)hexylthiophene] (P3HT-b-P3HHT) in the aged pyridine solution. Such helical nanofibers were formed driven by the π-π interaction b more

In order to investigate the effects of Sm2O3 promoter on catalytic performance, the ordered mesoporous NiO–Sm2O3–Al2O3 catalysts were synthesized by a facile one-pot evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) method and used in CO methanation reaction to produce synthetic natural gas. Besides, the ord more

One-pot self-assembly of three components (metal acetates as the metal precursor, tridentate polypyridyl ligand N,N′-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)-tert-butylamine (bpta) as a capping ligand and bent dicarboxylic acids, 4,4'-(dimethylsilanediyl)bis-benzoic acid (H2L1) or 4,4'-oxybis-benzoic acid (H2L2), as br more