Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven Public Lab have fostered a better approach to directing the self-gathering of an extensive variety of novel nanoscale structures involving basic polymers as beginning materials. These nanometer-scale structures appear to be small Lego building blocks under the electron magnifying lens, including railings for miniature archaic palaces and Roman water systems.Yet rather than building whimsical little fiefdoms, the researchers are investigating what these clever shapes could mean for a material's capabilities. The group from Brookhaven Lab's Center for Useful Nanomaterials (CFN) describes their clever way to deal with controlled self-gathering in a















