Bend me, shape me, any way you want me: Scientists curve nanoparticle sheets into complex forms
Sunday, August 2, 2015 - 07:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists have been making nanoparticles for more than two decades in two-dimensional sheets, three-dimensional crystals and random clusters. But they have never been able to get a sheet of nanoparticles to curve or fold into a complex three-dimensional structure. Now researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Missouri and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found a simple way to do exactly that.