Formation of Functional Microstructures

Lubricani Carbon overcoat CoPtCrb magnetic layer 6 A ruthenium layer CoPtCrb magnetic layer Cr underlayer 

FIGURE 1.8 A cross section of a typical computer hard drive disk (from Ref 35). 

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FORMATION OF FUNCTIONAL MICROSTRUCTURES 1.3.1 RC Delay and New Interconnect Materials... 

The diffusion-collision model proposed by Karplus and Weaver (1976) as well as the approaches mentioned previously assumes a folding by steps, based on the formation of several microdomains which associate to form larger structures which on turn associate and so on. The formation of such microstructures would permit one to understand how nature had worked during the early stages of evolution for building a protein from elementary pieces with a given function and also what kind of assembly of these building blocks were necessary to differentiate. 

Molecular self-assembly is a synthetic technique that has been widely used to produce nano- and microstructures in a quick and efficient manner. It has become all the more crucial to the formation of nanostructures due to the control attainable over the end product and the relative ease with which nanostructures of defined structure and function can be produced using bulk manufacturing methods. 

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