The nanoparticle self-assembly technique opens up the possibility of creating metamaterials with new magneto-optical properties.
Electrostatic self-assembly, however, coats every exposed surface of an object, and does it at room temperature.
The Virginia Tech group envisages a variety of applications for electrostatic self-assembly.
His team is causing the self-assembly of inorganic compounds, so-called polyoxometalates, with the hope that they can develop useful traits and become superior versions of themselves.
The lamp, which packs flat for easy storage and self-assembly, is the brainchild of Klickity, a line of home-accessory products founded in 2011 by Irish women Kate Cronin and Elizabeth Fingleton.
Getting to that stage might mean combining self-assembly methods with lithography, or doing away with the head that reads the data-packed disk and instead creating a self-assembling solid-state system on the model of Flash memory storage used today.
Before long, self-assembly was put aside and the talk swung to how to improve X-rays, and then to the puzzling phenomenon of soldiers in Iraq who survive a bomb blast only to die a few days later of a stroke.
The secret to packing that much information on such small real estate--about 15 times denser than the densest data storage device currently in existence--is self-assembly, or tricking the disk's materials into organizing into an array of data-storing dots packed far tighter than what could be accomplished with current techniques.
For Deacon, the answer has to lie in a closer look at self-organizing processes and how the origins of life and consciousness are rooted in the constraints that bind and shape these processes as they build from the simplest self-assembly of molecules up to the emergence of the first life forms.
Cheddi became leader of the assembly in 1953, under the limited self-government newly allowed to the colony.
Most recently, the company has announced the "world's first application of self assembly used to create a vacuum around nanowires for next-generation microprocessors, " which just so happens to mimic the natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes, and enamel on teeth.
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In Croatia self-regulation has never really gained ground, despite the decision of the Annual Assembly of the Croatian Journalists' Association in 2006 to establish a media council.
The police report describes him as a "miscreant who was part of an unlawful assembly", at which the forces had fired tear gas shells in self-defence.
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