Self-Assembling Systems on Scales from

Issacs, Lyle, Self-Assembling Systems on Scales from Nanometers to Millimeters Design and Discovery, 4, 1. 

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Recently a new field, mesoscopic physics, has emerged. It is interesting to understand the physical properties of systems that are not as small as a single atom, but small enough that the properties can be dramatically different from those in a larger assembly. All these new mesoscopic phenomena can easily be observed in the dielectric properties of colloid systems. Their properties strictly depend on the dimensional scale and the time scale of observation. Self-assembling systems such as micellar surfactant solutions, micro emulsions, emulsions, aqueous solutions of biopolymers, and cell and lidposome suspensions all to-... 

The formation of nanostructures such as nanodot arrays has drawn a great attention due to the feasible applications in a variety of functional structures and nanodevices containing optoelectronic device, information storage, and sensing media [1-3]. The various methods such as self-assembled nanodots from solution onto substrate, strain-induced growth, and template-based methods have been proposed for the fabrication of nanodot arrays on a large area, [4-6]. However, most of these works can be applied to the small scale systems due to the limited material systems. 

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