A view into how nanoscale building blocks can rearrange into different organized structures on command is now possible with an approach that combines an electron microscope, a small sample holder with ...

You've got to give this video a few minutes to warm up, but when it does, it's well worth it. Volker Blanz and Thomas Vetter of the MPI for Biological Cybernetics in Germany have come up with a ...

Flat materials that can morph into three-dimensional shapes have potential applications in architecture, medicine, robotics, space travel, and much more. But programming these shape changes requires ...

Wrinkles aren't usually an aspect of the future that gets people excited. But fast cars are. And someday we might have cars that can accelerate more quickly, and efficiently, by morphing their surface ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass-- There is a story about how the modern golf ball, with its dimpled surface, came to be: In the mid-1800s, it is said, new golf balls were smooth, but became dimpled over time as ...

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The approach could eventually enable smart materials and coatings that can switch between different optical, mechanical and electronic properties. The imaging technique lets researchers watch how ...

Charge screening controls the self-assembly phase behavior of gold nanocubes. Credit: Nature Chemical Engineering (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s44286-024-00102-9 A view into how nanoscale building blocks can ...