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Tiny Transformers: Chemists create Microscopic and Malleable Building Blocks

A team of NYU chemists has created malleable and microscopic self-assembling particles that can serve as the next generation of building blocks in the creation of synthetic materials. The research focused on engineering particles a micrometer in width -- about 1/200th the width of a strand of human hair (on which the particles [pink and blue] are placed in the above image). Credit: Image courtesy of the Sacanna lab.

A team of NYU chemists has created malleable and microscopic self-assembling particles that can serve as the next generation of building blocks in the creation of synthetic materials. The research focused on engineering particles a micrometer in width — about 1/200th the width of a strand of human hair (on which the particles [pink and blue] are placed in the above image). Credit: Image courtesy of the Sacanna lab.

Taking a page from Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels,” a team of scientists has created malleable and microscopic self-assembling particles that can serve as the next generation of building blocks in the creation of synthetic materials...

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