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Berkeley Scientists Develop Self-Assembling Nanorods

Posted by samzenpus on from the out-of-the-lab dept.

First time accepted submitter techgeek0279 writes "Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a relatively fast, easy and inexpensive technique for inducing nanorods to self-assemble into one-, two- and even three-dimensional macroscopic structures."

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  1. Self-anything materials by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They scare me. Not because the gray goo idea, but because I can't help but think that it could really be a problem to stabilize them once they're in the desired shape/structure. If their curing is chemical, and we do get to see some great materials, couldn't their "self-stuff" functions be triggered once they're in place inside our objects ? I RTFA, but yeah, IANAC.

    OTOH, it would be cool if these materials were easier to recycle, maybe at room temperature.