{"id":147180,"date":"2022-09-28T23:23:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T04:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/physicists-take-self-assembly-to-new-level"},"modified":"2022-09-28T23:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T04:23:23","slug":"physicists-take-self-assembly-to-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/physicists-take-self-assembly-to-new-level","title":{"rendered":"Physicists take self-assembly to new level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-take-self-assembly-to-new-level.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists has created a new way to self-assemble particles\u2014an advance that offers new promise for building complex and innovative materials at the microscopic level.<\/p>\n<p>Self-assembly, introduced in the early 2000s, gives scientists a means to \u201cpre-program\u201d particles, allowing for the building of materials without further human intervention\u2014the microscopic equivalent of Ikea furniture that can assemble itself.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough, reported in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, centers on emulsions\u2014droplets of oil immersed in water\u2014and their use in the self-assembly of foldamers, which are unique shapes that can be theoretically predicted from the sequence of droplet interactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of physicists has created a new way to self-assemble particles\u2014an advance that offers new promise for building complex and innovative materials at the microscopic level. Self-assembly, introduced in the early 2000s, gives scientists a means to \u201cpre-program\u201d particles, allowing for the building of materials without further human intervention\u2014the microscopic equivalent of Ikea furniture [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147180","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=147180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}