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cannot go down to the 10 nm or less necessary to create tiny, yet mighty, devices. The giant surfactants, however, can dictate smaller-scale electronic components.


“This is exactly what we are pursuing - self-assembling materials that organize at smaller sizes, say, less than 20 or even 10 nanometres,” says Cheng, equating 20 nm to 1 /4,000th the diameter of a human hair.


An international team of experts from UA, Peking University in China, National Tsinghua University in Taiwan and McMaster University in Canada have shown how well-ordered nanostructures in various states, such as in thin films and in solution, offer extensive applications in nanotechnology. “These results are not only of pure scientific interest to the narrow group of scientists, but also important to a broad range of industry people,” says Cheng, noting that his team is testing real-world applications in nanopatterning technologies and hope to see commercialisation in the future.


The team’s study is highlighted in a pending patent application through the University of Akron Research Foundation and the


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article, “Giant surfactants provide a versatile platform for sub-10- nm nanostructure engineering” by Xinfei Yu et al, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110, 10078-10083, 2013.


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