{"id":228600,"date":"2026-01-08T21:28:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/behind-natures-blueprints-physicists-create-theoretical-rulebook-of-self-assembly"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:28:37","slug":"behind-natures-blueprints-physicists-create-theoretical-rulebook-of-self-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/behind-natures-blueprints-physicists-create-theoretical-rulebook-of-self-assembly","title":{"rendered":"Behind nature\u2019s blueprints: Physicists create \u2018theoretical rulebook\u2019 of self-assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/behind-natures-blueprints-physicists-create-theoretical-rulebook-of-self-assembly2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and Brandeis University have uncovered geometric rules that act as a master control panel for self-assembling particles.<\/p>\n<p>The results, which could find applications ranging from protein design to synthetic nanomachines, were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-03120-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict. Now, researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and Brandeis University have uncovered geometric rules that act as a master control panel for self-assembling particles. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228600","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}