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Fabrication of Functional Silicon Surfaces using Metallic Nanostructures Produced by Block Copolymer Self-Assembly

Self-assembly is the autonomous organization of components into patterns or structures without human intervention. At the molecular level, self-assembly usually involves non-covalent interactions of various natures, such as van der Waals, electrostatic and ...

EPFL2011

Modeling Self-Assembly Across Scales: The Unifying Perspective of Smart Minimal Particles

Alcherio Martinoli, Massimo Mastrangeli, Grégory Mermoud

A wealth of current research in microengineering aims at fabricating devices of increasing complexity, notably by (self-)assembling elementary components into heterogeneous functional systems. At the same time, a large body of robotic research called swarm ...

2011

Determining Control Strategies for Damage Tolerance of an Active Tensegrity Structure

Ian Smith, Nizar Bel Hadj Ali, Sinan Korkmaz

Tensegrity structures are spatial, reticulate and lightweight systems composed of struts and cables. Stability is provided by a self-stress state between tensioned and compressed elements. Tensegrities have received interest among scientists and engineers ...

Elsevier2011

Self-assembled ferroelectric-dielectric nanocomposite films for tunable applications

Nava Setter, Paul Muralt, Alexander Tagantsev, Maxim Gureev, Silviu Cosmin Sandu

Nanocomposite films consisting of BaTiO3 and CeO2 have been grown by a self-assembled approach. The composite structure of those films varied with the volume fractions of BaTiO3 and CeO2. A BaTiO3 in the form of inclined nano-fibers embedded in CeO2 matrix ...

Iop Publishing Ltd, Dirac House, Temple Back, Bristol Bs1 6Be, England2010

Modeling Self-Assembly at All Scales

Jürgen Brugger, Alcherio Martinoli, Rosario Maurizio Gullo, Loïc Jacot-Descombes, Grégory Mermoud

Can we devise a unique methodological framework for modeling and controlling these self-assembling systems? ...

2010

Photoelectrochemical complexes for solar energy conversion that chemically and autonomously regenerate

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian

Naturally occurring photosynthetic systems use elaborate pathways of self-repair to limit the impact of photo-damage. Here, we demonstrate a complex consisting of two recombinant proteins, phospholipids and a carbon nanotube that mimics this process. The c ...

2010

The Interplay between Cytidine Deaminases, HIV and Domesticated Genetic Parasites

"There is more virus in us than us in us". John Coffin's famous sentence illustrates that particular nucleic acid sequences related to exogenous viruses, called retrotransposons, constitute almost half of the human genome and largely exceeds the amount of ...

EPFL2010

Surface-Confined Metal?Organic Nanostructures from Co-Directed Assembly of Linear Terphenyl-dicarbonitrile Linkers on Ag(111)

Klaus Kern, Harald Brune, Uta Schlickum, Régis Decker

A detailed structural analysis of the surface supported self-assembly of terphenyl-4,4′′-dicarbonitrile molecules (NC−Ph3−CN) linked by Co adatoms on Ag(111) reveals different surface patterns depending on the constraints applied to the system. Without con ...

American Chemical Society2010

Self-Assembly Strategies in a Group of Autonomous Mobile Robots

Roderich Gross

Robots are said to be capable of self-assembly when they can autonomously form physical connections with each other. By examining different ways in which a system can use self-assembly (i.e., different strategies), we demonstrate and quantify the performan ...

2010

Self-assembling SAS-6 multimer is a core centriole building block

Paul Guichard

Centrioles are conserved microtubule-based organelles with 9-fold symmetry that are essential for cilia and mitotic spindle formation. A conserved structure at the onset of centriole assembly is a "cartwheel" with 9-fold radial symmetry and a central tubul ...

2010

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