In a 2021 study, Sottos and her colleagues established frontal polymerization as a reliable method to manufacture biologically inspired polymer materials. Now, their novel technique builds on this by ...

Through their reliable, reversible hybridization, nucleic acids can guide the assembly of nanostructures with unparalleled precision 1,2,3. The predictability of Watson–Crick DNA base pairing makes it ...

Drying of a suspension droplet leaves a variety of deposit patterns of solutes 1,2,3. As long as evaporation is well controlled, drying-mediated self-assembly 4 is ubiquitously applicable to assemble ...