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NANO-SELF ASSEMBLY. "The ability to assemble nanoparticles into well-defined configuration in space is crucial to the development of electronic devices that are small but can contain plenty of information. The spatial arrangements of these self-assembled nanoparticles can be potentially used to build increasingly complex structures leading to a wide variety of materials that can be used for different purposes." https://lnkd.in/dYubWQd View in LinkedIn

SELF-REPLICATING ROBOTS. "Self reconfiguring robotic systems are potentially more robust and more adaptive than conventional systems. The reconfiguration ability allows a robot or a group of robots to disassemble and reassemble machines to form new morphologies that are better suitable for new tasks, such as changing from a legged robot to a snake robot and then to a rolling robot." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Reconfiguring_Modular_Robotics View in LinkedIn

TOXIN SELF-ASSEMBLY. "Pore-forming toxins (PFT) are water-soluble proteins that possess the remarkable ability to self-assemble on the membrane of target cells, where they form pores causing cell damage. The incorporation of lipids from the target membrane within the structure of the pore provides a membrane-specific trigger for the activation of a haemolytic toxin." https://lnkd.in/d5kUq7X View in LinkedIn

SELF-REPAIRING ROBOTS. "Beyond conventional actuation, sensing and control typically found in fixed-morphology robots, self-reconfiguring robots are also able to deliberately change their own shape by rearranging the connectivity of their parts, in order to adapt to new circumstances, perform new tasks, or recover from damage." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Reconfiguring_Modular_Robotics View in LinkedIn

NANO-BIOMIMICRY RELIES ON NON-COVALENT BONDS. "The precise programming of these recognition events, and hence the correct assembly of the growing superstructure, relies on a fundamental understanding and the practical exploitation of non-covalent bonding interactions between and within molecules." https://lnkd.in/dkPudC4 View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS. "Modular self-reconfiguring robotic systems or self-reconfigurable modular robots are autonomous kinematic machines with variable morphology." Wrap your mind around that one. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Reconfiguring_Modular_Robotics View in LinkedIn

NANO-BIOMIMICRY. "Significant progress can be made in the development of nanoscience by transferring concepts found in the biological world into the chemical arena. Central to this mission is the development of simple chemical systems capable of instructing their own organization into large aggregates of molecules through their mutual recognition properties." https://lnkd.in/dkPudC4 View in LinkedIn

UNEXPECTED LEAP FORWARD. "The demonstration came as a great surprise to researchers in the field of DNA nanotechnology: the structures had formed from about 1000 different types of DNA brick, yet the general expectation was that large numbers of component types would be unable to assemble in an error-free way." https://lnkd.in/dE73DV6 View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR SELF-ASSEMBLY. "The formation of molecular crystals, colloids, lipid bilayers, phase-separated polymers, and self-assembled monolayers are all examples of molecular self-assembly. Although self-assembly originated in the study of molecules, it is a strategy that is, in principle, applicable at all size scales." https://lnkd.in/dyqXZ8k View in LinkedIn

DNA BRICKS. "In 2012, researchers demonstrated that synthetic DNA strands called “DNA bricks” could self-assemble into complicated three-dimensional equilibrium structures, including letters of the English alphabet and shapes with well-defined cavities and tunnels." https://lnkd.in/dE73DV6 View in LinkedIn