Multi-Functionalization of Solid-Support via Zn(II)-Mediated Chirality-Directed Self-Assembly

Directed Self Assembly of Mixed Nanowire Populations via Lithographic Microwells

Vertical nanowire arrays can be used for both energy harvesting and storage. Using assembly to create such arrays allows two populations to be mixed together, while standard fabrication limits the product to a single material. However in the absence of applied fields [1] or controlled drying conditions [2], nanowires typically assemble parallel to the surface, forming horizontal arrays. The Kea...

DNA Self-Assembly: From Chirality to Evolution

Transient or long-term DNA self-assembly participates in essential genetic functions. The present review focuses on tight DNA-DNA interactions that have recently been found to play important roles in both controlling DNA higher-order structures and their topology. Due to their chirality, double helices are tightly packed into stable right-handed crossovers. Simple packing rules that are imposed...

Self-assembly of two-dimensional islands via strain-mediated coarsening.

We demonstrate two distinctive effects of strain-induced island-island interaction on island size and spatial distribution during coarsening of 2D islands. When coarsening proceeds via only mass transport between islands, the interaction broadens the island size distribution, leading to a power-law dependence of island size uniformity on island number density. When coarsening proceeds via islan...

Specific functionalization of CTAB stabilized anisotropic gold nanoparticles with polypeptides for folding-mediated self-assembly

Self-assembly at solid surfaces

The spontaneous formation of highly ordered amphiphilic monolayers on solid surfaces by adsorption from organic solutions at the liquid–solid interface was first reported in the seminal work of W. A. Zisman and co-workers in the mid-20th century [1]. In that work, attention was focused on the remarkable wetting properties of such monolayers, which were not only hydrophobic, but also oleophobic,...