A Constructive Chemical Conversation
By Alison Grinthal, Wim L. Noorduin, Joanna Aizenberg
Precisely timed series of interventions lead to the growth of a variety of complex, three-dimensional microscale structures
This Article From Issue
July-August 2016
Volume 104, Number 4
Page 228
DOI: 10.1511/2016.121.228
Long before life covered the Earth with intricately patterned forms, its precursor materials started talking. Showering each other with synthesis byproducts and confronting each other with changing surfaces, they fueled, slowed, blocked, diverted, shaped each other’s growth—answering to each other at every turn as, for better and for worse, they began to shape and orient as one.
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