(Nanowerk News) National University of Singapore (NUS) chemists have synthesised and characterised π-extended triangulene molecules with ferromagnetically coupled edge states for molecular spintronic ...

Most technical functional units are built bit by bit according to a well-designed construction plan. The components are sequentially put in place by humans or machines. Life, however, is based on a ...

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) image of a self-assembly of triangular molecules on a silver surface. The repeated pattern (half of a pattern is indicated in yellow) has a size of 45 nanometers.

The beautiful six-fold symmetry of snowflakes is the result of the hydrogen bonds that water molecules form when they freeze. But snowflakes can form other shapes too when the growth of the crystal is ...

A lot of organic chemistry feels like an episode of Mythbusters, if a bit of an undramatic one. Imagine a couple of chemists sitting at a white board, asking each other, "Is it actually possible to ...

A bacterium has evolved an enzyme that assembles in a fractal structure, a mathematical pattern that repeats itself at smaller scales. Fractal patterns are found throughout nature on large, ...