Published in Nature · View the paper (DOI)
Scientists at the University of Illinois have created a new strategy to build materials with unique properties by organizing nanoparticles into pinwheel shapes. The pinwheel lattice exhibits chirality, a property that can be seen in nature's examples such as DNA and human hands.
Coverage from 2 institutions
- Organizing nanoparticles into pinwheel shapes offers new twist on engineered materials University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau · Nov 28, 2022 · first to report
- 'Transformer' pinwheels offer new twist on nano-engineered materials University of Michigan · Nov 28, 2022