Self Assembly

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

A joint paper by Kazan Federal University, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, and Russian Oil and Gas University was published in Chemistry - A European Journal. The team produced and studied new active photocatalysts based on natural aluminosilicate nanotubes with cadmium sulfide quantum dots stabili more

A surface displays structural colors when light is reflected by tiny, regular structural elements in a transparent material. Researchers have now developed a method to make structural colors from cellulose-based polymers by using coated droplets that exist in a surrounding fluid--so-called liquid ma 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