In Situ Monitored Self-Assembly of Three-Dimensional Polyhedral Nanostructures

Nano Letters ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 3655-3660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunhui Dai ◽  
Jeong-Hyun Cho
Author(s):  
D. Reis ◽  
B. Vian ◽  
J. C. Roland

Wall morphogenesis in higher plants is a problem still open to controversy. Until now the possibility of a transmembrane control and the involvement of microtubules were mostly envisaged. Self-assembly processes have been observed in the case of walls of Chlamydomonas and bacteria. Spontaneous gelling interactions between xanthan and galactomannan from Ceratonia have been analyzed very recently. The present work provides indications that some processes of spontaneous aggregation could occur in higher plants during the formation and expansion of cell wall.Observations were performed on hypocotyl of mung bean (Phaseolus aureus) for which growth characteristics and wall composition have been previously defined.In situ, the walls of actively growing cells (primary walls) show an ordered three-dimensional organization (fig. 1). The wall is typically polylamellate with multifibrillar layers alternately transverse and longitudinal. Between these layers intermediate strata exist in which the orientation of microfibrils progressively rotates. Thus a progressive change in the morphogenetic activity occurs.


2007 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 117-119
Author(s):  
Li Gao ◽  
Qing Feng Yan ◽  
C.C. Wong ◽  
Yet Ming Chiang

Convective self-assembly of colloidal spheres provides a simple method for fabricating two and three dimensional colloidal crystals. In this work, we investigated the layer transitions phenomena during colloidal self-assembly in a sessile drop by using an in-situ videoscopic set-up. The effects of surface charge, colloidal concentration, and surfactant additions were examined. The results show that the chemical environment plays an important role in colloidal self-assembly. In the case of ordered growth, different layer transition phenomena were observed when the colloidal concentration is different.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (82) ◽  
pp. 78538-78547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiming Cheng ◽  
Huafei Xue ◽  
Guangdong Zhao ◽  
Changqing Hong ◽  
Xinghong Zhang

In this work, hierarchical porous graphene-based composite aerogels are synthesized by a simple and facile one-pot polymerization-induced phase separation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 89 (23) ◽  
pp. 12843-12849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meiling Lian ◽  
Liang Xu ◽  
Xiaowen Zhu ◽  
Xu Chen ◽  
Wensheng Yang ◽  
...  

Cellulose ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 6823-6830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Awais Naeem ◽  
Mensah Alfred ◽  
Pengfei Lv ◽  
Huimin Zhou ◽  
Qufu Wei

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (89) ◽  
pp. 73194-73201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akinobu Yamaguchi ◽  
Takao Fukuoka ◽  
Ryohei Hara ◽  
Kazuhisa Kuroda ◽  
Ryo Takahashi ◽  
...  

We develop a novel in situ surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) platform with three-dimensional nanostructure gold electrodes using the competitive self-assembly between dielectrophoresis and convective aggregation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (13) ◽  
pp. eaay5986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyeong Min Jin ◽  
Xiao Li ◽  
James A. Dolan ◽  
R. Joseph Kline ◽  
José A. Martínez-González ◽  
...  

Liquid crystal blue phases (BPs) are three-dimensional soft crystals with unit cell sizes orders of magnitude larger than those of classic, atomic crystals. The directed self-assembly of BPs on chemically patterned surfaces uniquely enables detailed in situ resonant soft x-ray scattering measurements of martensitic phase transformations in these systems. The formation of twin lamellae is explicitly identified during the BPII-to-BPI transformation, further corroborating the martensitic nature of this transformation and broadening the analogy between soft and atomic crystal diffusionless phase transformations to include their strain-release mechanisms.


Author(s):  
J. P. Revel

Movement of individual cells or of cell sheets and complex patterns of folding play a prominent role in the early developmental stages of the embryo. Our understanding of these processes is based on three- dimensional reconstructions laboriously prepared from serial sections, and from autoradiographic and other studies. Many concepts have also evolved from extrapolation of investigations of cell movement carried out in vitro. The scanning electron microscope now allows us to examine some of these events in situ. It is possible to prepare dissections of embryos and even of tissues of adult animals which reveal existing relationships between various structures more readily than used to be possible vithout an SEM.


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