{"id":183730,"date":"2024-02-26T19:24:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T01:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/thermally-engineering-templates-for-highly-ordered-self-assembled-materials"},"modified":"2024-02-26T19:24:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T01:24:36","slug":"thermally-engineering-templates-for-highly-ordered-self-assembled-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/thermally-engineering-templates-for-highly-ordered-self-assembled-materials","title":{"rendered":"Thermally engineering templates for highly ordered self-assembled materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thermally-engineering-templates-for-highly-ordered-self-assembled-materials3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Self-assembled solidifying eutectic materials directed by a template with miniature features demonstrate unique microstructures and patterns as a result of diffusion and thermal gradients caused by the template. Despite the template trying to force the material to solidify into a regular pattern, when the template carries a lot of heat it also can interfere with the solidification process and cause disorder in the long-range pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor have developed a template material that carries almost no heat and therefore stops <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heat+transfer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heat transfer<\/a> between the template material itself and the solidifying eutectic material. They accomplished this by forming the template from a material with very low thermal conductivity, ultimately resulting in highly organized self-assembled microstructures.<\/p>\n<p>The results of this <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/adma.202308720\">research<\/a> were recently published in the journal <i>Advanced Materials.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-assembled solidifying eutectic materials directed by a template with miniature features demonstrate unique microstructures and patterns as a result of diffusion and thermal gradients caused by the template. Despite the template trying to force the material to solidify into a regular pattern, when the template carries a lot of heat it also can interfere with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183730","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}