{"id":99726,"date":"2019-12-13T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T06:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-explain-why-some-molecules-spontaneously-arrange-themselves-into-five-slices-of-nanoscale-pie"},"modified":"2019-12-13T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T06:43:09","slug":"scientists-explain-why-some-molecules-spontaneously-arrange-themselves-into-five-slices-of-nanoscale-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-explain-why-some-molecules-spontaneously-arrange-themselves-into-five-slices-of-nanoscale-pie","title":{"rendered":"Scientists explain why some molecules spontaneously arrange themselves into five slices of nanoscale pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7cBUCJV6QP0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Materials formed on vanishingly small scales are being used in medicine, electronics, manufacturing and a host of other applications. But scientists have only scratched the surface of understanding how to control building blocks on the nanoscale, where simple machines the size of a virus operate.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of researchers led by Dongsheng Li, a materials scientist at PNNL, and collaborators at the University of Michigan and the Chinese Academy of <i>Science<\/i>s, have unlocked the secret to one of the most useful nanostructures: the five-fold twin. Their study describing why and how this shape forms is detailed in the journal <i>Science<\/i> and was presented at the Materials Research Society annual meeting on December 5, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>A cross section of a five-fold twin structure looks for all the world like a pie sliced into five perfectly symmetrical pieces. Nanomaterials with this structure have already been shown to have useful properties and are deployed in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/medical+research\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">medical research<\/a> for precisely tagging cancerous tumors for imaging and tracking, and in electronics, where they are valued for their mechanical strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials formed on vanishingly small scales are being used in medicine, electronics, manufacturing and a host of other applications. But scientists have only scratched the surface of understanding how to control building blocks on the nanoscale, where simple machines the size of a virus operate. Now, a team of researchers led by Dongsheng Li, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99726","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=99726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}