{"id":129810,"date":"2021-11-02T00:24:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T07:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/physicists-discover-how-particles-self-assemble"},"modified":"2021-11-02T00:24:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T07:24:33","slug":"physicists-discover-how-particles-self-assemble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/physicists-discover-how-particles-self-assemble","title":{"rendered":"Physicists discover how particles self-assemble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-how-particles-self-assemble.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists has discovered how DNA molecules self-organize into adhesive patches between particles in response to assembly instructions. Its findings offer a \u201cproof of concept\u201d for an innovative way to produce materials with a well-defined connectivity between the particles.<\/p>\n<p>The work is reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe show that one can program particles to make tailored structures with customized properties,\u201d explains Jasna Brujic, a professor in New York University\u2019s Department of Physics and one of the researchers. \u201cWhile <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cranes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cranes<\/a>, drills, and hammers must be controlled by humans in constructing buildings, this work reveals how one can use physics to make <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/smart+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">smart materials<\/a> that \u2018know\u2019 how to assemble themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of physicists has discovered how DNA molecules self-organize into adhesive patches between particles in response to assembly instructions. Its findings offer a \u201cproof of concept\u201d for an innovative way to produce materials with a well-defined connectivity between the particles. The work is reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. \u201cWe show [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}