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.
Self-assembly was very useful in eye-of-the-needle problems in cases where you had to get something very large through a very small hole and Leuthardt wondered if it might be helpful in minimally invasive surgery.
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.
Clearly Bogo a self-described fighter for digital rights who once ran for the Bulgarian Parliament and National Assembly on the platform of freedom on the Internet was not trying to profit, but was voicing his dissent.
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.
The man considered to be Mr Maduro's main rival, National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, tweeted that the results "oblige us to make a profound self-criticism".
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