Magnetic Nanocubes Self-Assemble Into Helical Superstructures

Thursday, September 4, 2014 - 16:30 in Physics & Chemistry

Collaborating with nanochemists led by Rafal Klajn at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, who found that magnetite nanocubes can self-assemble into helical superstructures under certain conditions, UIC theoretical chemist Petr Kral and his students simulated the phenomenon and explained the conditions under which it can occur.

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