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ANISOTROPIC FORCES. “The ordering physical fields/forces like electric, magnetic, or dipole fields as well as polarization forces have to be anisotropic to allow for an ordering of the nanoparticle units. The nanoparticles in turn also have to be anisotropic with respect to their interaction potentials so that an ordering can take place.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn

VARIABLES. “The hypothesis has effects in terms of (i) geometry, through non-trivial space-time effects on geodesics apart from curvature, and (ii) an additional scale for the breakdown of space-time, due to reliance on information exchange.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

SELF-ASSEMBLY. “In the majority of known cases, mesocrystals form nanoparticles in solution, which aggregate and arrange in crystallographic order-even without any additives (Fig. 1b). This mechanism for mesocrystal formation heavily relies on particle interaction forces as well as on external forces.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn

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NACRE. “The organic matrix of nacre: a peptide CAP-l from a crayfish with a chitin binding motif, a phosphoserin unit for promoting the initial formation of amorphous CaC03 (ACC) and an acidic binding domain for CaCOl led to a mesoClystal film after nucleation ofACC, crystallization and nanoparticle alignment on a film composed of parallel a-chitin microfibrils. Here, calcite nanoparticles were aligned along the chitin fibrils.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn

THE ANCIENT EMOTIONAL BRAIN. According to Panksepp, “the seven emotional systems can be seen in all mammals, including humans. Each system is based on its own neural network, which can be traced back through our animal ancestors. Predominantly, each system uses its own set of neurochemicals, which have become bases for certain psychoactive drugs.” https://lnkd.in/ePE9qUAi View in LinkedIn

OVER-TRANSITIONS. “On the other hand, if the mutual order of the nanocrystals is continuously brought out of crystallographic register until mutual order is lost, the mesocrystal will transform to an unoriented polycrystal.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn

“THE OBJECTIVE of the present analysis is to investigate if the consequences of such an information exchange origin are realistic or not; not to formulate a sub-Planckian theory of such interactions.” https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)140.pdf View in LinkedIn

TRANSITIONS. “Also, mesocrystals were shown to be intermediates between a classical single crystal and a polycrystal without mutual orientation of its subunits and an extended view on crystallization with a continuous structural transition between single and polycrystal arises. Making the building units of a 3D·aligned mesocrystal smaller via clusters to ions will be the transition of a mesocrystal to a single crystal.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn

CHOSEN BY EVOLUTION. “In addition, the number of known mesocrystal systems has much increased spanning from biominerals to functional materials. The fact that mesocrystals are found for biominerals, which are evolutionary highly optimized materials, shows that obviously, nonclassical crystallization is an advantageous crystallization pathway, which is worth to apply for the synthesis of advanced materials with improved properties.” https://lnkd.in/eNACsghr View in LinkedIn