CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University have demonstrated bio-inspired structures that self-assemble from simple building blocks: spheres. The helical ...
(Nanowerk News) Imagine intelligent infrastructure that automatically self-assembles, reshapes and repairs itself on demand. Buildings that organically grow new rooms when needed, self-optimizing ...
Catenanes are molecules in which two or more molecular rings are entangled like the links of a chain 2; indeed, their name derives from catena, the Latin word for chain. The rings are not connected by ...