University of Minnesota have developed a new process for the production of nanoscopic cubes and spheres of silicon dioxide. Instead of building their particles from smaller units, they used the controlled disassembly of larger, lattice-like structure...

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...