Nanostructured networks lend certain attributes of nanoparticles to macroscale systems, and result in a range of specialised materials, from natural cytoskeleton tissues to synthetic carbon nanotube composites. As well as the building blocks of the network, the network structure itself determines the properties of the resulting material. So far, however, control over the types of networks that these nanostructures self-organise into has not been achieved. Now researchers show how the relative strength of interactions between nanofibres can be tuned to dictate the topology and phase of the self-assembled network………
http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/61107
