Complexity Unfolds in Self-assembling Quasicrystals
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 10:42
in Physics & Chemistry
The University of Chicago's Dmitri Talapin and his colleagues have created quasicrystals out of self-assembling nanoparticles for the first time. Self-assembly techniques harness nature's own tendencies to develop novel materials.
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