Electrostatic Self Assembly by NanoSonic

NanoSonic produces nanomaterials using an electrostatic self-assembly (ESA) process. ESA allows the ultra-uniform formation of multiple, nanometer-thick layers of material into functional thin films, and recent modifications allow the formation of thicker films and bulk materials.

NanoSonic has created a "library" of self-assembled materials, many of them based on ESA processing, and has demonstrated the synthesis of more than 2000 individual material layers. We have also developed measurement capabilities to rapidly evaluate materials and new modifications to self-assembly processes.

As shown in this video, ESA processing involves the simple dipping of a chosen substrate into alternate aqueous solutions containing anionic and cationic materials such as: complexes of polymers; metal and oxide nanoclusters; cage-structured molecules such as fullerenes; and proteins and other biomolecules. Design of these individual precursor molecules, and control of the order of the multiple molecular layers through the thickness of the film, allow control over macroscopic electrical, optical, magnetic, thermal, mechanical, and other properties, important to many engineering devices and applications.

Please contact us at www.nanosonic.com for further information.

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Science & Technology

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• nanomaterial
• nanotechnology
• nanocluster
• biomolecule
• esa
• electrostatic self assembly
• innovative material
• new material