![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090509062444im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Catching Waves: Measuring Self-Assembly in Action
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June 21, 2007
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By making careful observations of the growth of a layer of molecules as they gradually cover the surface of a small silicon rectangle, researchers from NIST and North Carolina State University have produced the first experimental verification of recently improved theoretical models of self-assembled systems.
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Source North Carolina State University
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