AEI 36 |
| Self-assembly is alluring to scientists as one can create complex architectures of millions of building blocks in a simple manner. Until this point, however, these systems have focused on the thermodynamically most stable product and ignored the kinetic aspects of assembly – an aspect prevalent in natural self-assembled systems. We demonstrate a self-assembled system where identical building blocks (two segment polypyrrole/gold nanorods) can be assembled into different three dimensional shapes via kinetic control over the assembly. In this process we control the number and location of the rods via photolithography and the orientation and spacing of the rods are controlled via an anodic aluminum oxide template. This control allows for the generation of kinetic structures and the designed generation of three dimensional objects. |
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