Chemists at Rice University have discovered how to assemble gold and silver nanoparticle building blocks into larger structures based on a novel method that harkens back to one of nature's oldest known chemical innovations -- the self-assembly of lip...

Unravelling the complex process by which nanoparticles self-assemble into microscopic wafers could lead to new techniques for building nanoscale devices. Cadmium telluride nanocrystals have been found to spontaneously form sheets 2 microns thick i...