I have a hunch that colloidosomes (colloid bodies) will become a big
business in the nanotechnology field, given the intense interest in
self-assembly at the atomic/molecular level. Probably there will be
some medical/pharmaceutical applications as well. In a surge of
opportunistic parasitism, I even registered colloidosomes.com as a
domain name, but of course it does not have enough "hits" to register
on Google. Many obscure aspects of nanotech are likely to become
unbelievably important in the next few decades. . . .
Like jrowland I wonder whether our homebrew CS includes colloidosomes;
are these possibly the larger molecular aggolmerates we find in
less-effective generators like the much-criticized Robey device? (I
have one.) Or are the heavy/sparkly Tyndall effects due a cruder,
less organized kind of clustering?
The expertise of some list members would be welcome. . . .
On Wednesday, Aug 18, 2004, at 15:12 Asia/Tokyo, [email protected]
wrote:
Could this be relevant to CS?
"...When forced to arrange themselves on
a flat surface, the repulsion between
charged particles will lead to the
formation of a lattice composed of
identical triangles of particles to
minimise the energy of the
system...Researchers studying spherical
structures for the last hundred years or
so have puzzled over how to wrap charged
particles around a sphere because the
triangle-based lattice breaks down...An
electron microscope image of a
colloidosome
http://www.chemweb.com/alchem/images/0303sphere.jpg
a water droplet coated in colloid
(polystyrene) beads..."
hhttp://tinyurl.com/4frfr
[Not sure if free registration required]
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