Nanoparticle self-assembly and functionalization form the cornerstone of modern nanoscience, enabling the bottom-up fabrication of hierarchically organised materials with tailored properties.

Self-assembly of nanoparticle architectures harnesses the intrinsic tendencies of nanoscale building blocks to organise into ordered structures without external patterning. Driven by a combination of ...

With their tunable properties, nanoparticles can form extremely complicated structures like superlattices and supercrystals when organized precisely. These assembled structures often display unique ...

A research team including members from the University of Michigan have unveiled a new observational technique that's sensitive to the dynamics of the intrinsic quantum jiggles of materials, or phonons ...

Polymer nanoparticles formed by polymerization-induced self-assembly inhibited ice recrystallization primarily through their ...

Nanoscale materials present us with astonishing chemical and physical properties that help materialize applications such as single molecular sensing and minimally invasive photothermal therapy—which ...

Researchers designed nanoparticles that can self-assemble at room temperature and deliver RNA (green) to living cells (nuclei shown in blue), offering a new pathway to vaccine and biologic drug design ...

The Drug Metabolism Gordon Research Conferences provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of frontier research in the biological, chemical, physical and engineering sciences ...

Self-assembly is the process by which molecules, nanoparticles, polymers, proteins, or other building blocks organize into ordered structures through local interactions rather than direct external ...

Coulomb attraction, also known as electrostatic attraction, is a fundamental force that plays a crucial role in the interactions between nanoparticles. It is the attractive force experienced by ...

Scientists demonstrated a proton-assisted electrostatic assembly technique that transports nanoparticles from water within seconds while enabling 2D mono-layered assembly with excellent surface ...