Experimental design, self-organization

We have developed a variety of experimental techniques to control the geometry, dimensionahty, topology, and functionality in surfactant membranes that can be directly useful in nanoscale network and device design [11-13]. Methods based on self-assembly, self-organization, and forced shape... 

Figure 4. Experimental design based on the new concept of self organization to obtain a hierarchic dot or stripe pattern composed of metal nanoparticles. Here polymer is used for constructing the super-layer structure with the wavelength X that is chosen by dewetting instability. The patterned polymer islands simultaneously provide the initial and boundary conditions of sub-layer, i.e., the conditions for self-assembly of nanoparticles.

Therefore, accumulation of experimental data on mobilities in various classes of liquid crystals are needed before any structural relationship with charge carrier transport properties is established, leading to a rational design of self-organizing molecular semiconductors. 

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