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An artist's representation of the structures produced by this self-assembly method shows a top-down view, with the posts produced by electron-beam lithography shown in blue, and the resulting self-assembled shapes shown in white.
Image: Yan Liang
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A scanning electron microscope image shows a pattern produced by the MIT team's self-assembling polymer system. A grid of posts, seen as light-colored circles, controls the size and spacing of structures on the surface. Cylinders outside the grid form quite different shapes than those inside it, which are controlled by the posts.
Image courtesy of Tavakkoli et al, in Advanced Materials.
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