Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict.

Researchers uncover geometric principles governing how particles self-assemble, solving a long-standing challenge in ...

Tailed bacteriophages and herpesviruses translocate their genome into and out of their capsid (or ‘head’) through a 12-fold symmetric portal protein assembly (or simply ‘portal’), located at a special ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Industrial production processes, by and large, rely on robotic assembly lines that place, package, and connect a variety of disparate components. While the manufacturing world is ...

Molecular self-assembly, which refers to the spontaneous assembly of precursor molecules to form nanostructured objects 1, is controlled by the intrinsic properties of the molecules and their ...

Design-for-assembly (DFA) and design-for-manufacture (DFM) techniques can be applied to products assembled manually or automatically or manufactured by specific techniques, such as machining, die ...

Machine learning (ML) is transforming protein structure prediction. Algorithms can predict 3D structures from amino acid ...