To date, technical development has boosted the efficiencies of energy converting/storing
devices with conventional planar architectures to be close to the corresponding theoretical …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the self-assembly process for the
fabrication of micro-and nano-scale structures for various device applications. The success …

Hailed as one of the key areas of nanoscience likely to shape future scientific research, self-
assembly offers the most promising route to true molecular nanotechnology. Focusing on …

Chemical representations play a vital part in the teaching and learning of chemistry. The aim
of this research was to investigate students' understanding of chemical representations and …

Self-assembly is the fundamental but counterintuitive principle that explains how ordered
biomolecular complexes form spontaneously in the cell. This study investigated the impact of …

Carbon soot has been known since antiquity, but has recently been finding new uses as a
robust, inexpensive nanomaterial. This paper describes the superhydrophobic properties of …

This paper describes simple methods for demonstrating spontaneous assembly of visible
particles to illustrate topics such as the thermodynamics of crystallization. The assembling …

This paper describes simple methods of demonstrating macroscale spontaneous assembly.
These demonstrations can illustrate topics in college or high school chemistry courses, such …

A two-part experiment using bubble rafts to analyze amorphous structures is presented. In
the first part, the distinctions between crystalline and vitreous structures are examined. In the …

We report here the dip coating processes for the formation of large area self-assembled
monolayer of micro-sized silica spheres, on glass and on silicon substrates. The self …