How Nature Builds Itself: Self-Assembly

by: Amy R. Taylor, Bethany P. Broadwell, M. Gail Jones, and Michael R. Falvo

By designing and building models with Legos and placing them in a reaction chamber, students will simulate the process of molecular self-assembly. This activity provides a basis for understanding that thermal energy at the nanometer scale is a determining factor for whether or not self-assembly occurs.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2007Stock # PB210X_11

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