Nano world: Where towers construct themselves

Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 06:18 in Physics & Chemistry

A tower which builds itself is absurd -- and however, in the nano world self-assembly is reality. Physicists have investigated how to control the ordering of such self-assembling structures at the nano-scale. Physicists investigated how they can control the ordering of such self-assembling structures and found out how to switch the assembly process on and off.

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