Nanotech discovery could have radical implications
Torquato and colleagues have published a paper in the Nov. 25 issue of Physical Review Letters, the leading physics journal, outlining a mathematical approach that would enable them to produce desired configurations of nanoparticles by manipulating the manner in which the particles interact with one another.
Instead of employing the traditional trial-and-error method of self-assembly that is used by nanotechnologists and which is found in nature, scientists propose starting with an exact blueprint of the nanostructure they want to build.
[The paper appearing in Physical Review Letters is a condensed version of a more detailed paper that has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E and which will probably appear sometime before the end of the year.]
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