Rotating particles naturally organize | Michigan Engineering LabLog

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Channel: Michigan Engineering · 2014 · Science & Technology

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Inspired by biological self-organization, a new strategy for assembling nanoparticles divides a set of particles that spin in opposite directions. Where large groups of same-spinning particles accumulate, they form crystals that rotate as one. Because particles are pushed along the interfaces between opposite-spinning groups, this technique could be used to build a nano-pump. 

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