Prof. Michael Hagan talks about spontaneous assembly as an engineering design principle in Physics Today (co-Authored with W Benajmin Rogers and Gregory Grason) : Teaching nanostructures to build themselves physicstoday.aip.org/features/tea...
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Teaching nanostructures to build themselves
Bottom-up self-assembly is a powerful approach to engineering at small scales. Special strategies are needed to formulate components that assemble into predetermined shapes with precise sizes.
