Schematic Of The Energy Shifts Between Different Versions Of A Self-Assembling Nanocube (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Schematic Of The Energy Shifts Between Different Versions Of A Self-Assembling Nanocube

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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have designed two types of nanocubes whose building blocks, hexaphenylbenzene derivative molecules (represented as red and blue), can automatically combine and scramble repeatedly based on the temperature of their environment. This ability comes from the different temperature stabilities of the two cubes.

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Zhan et al. 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09495-1

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