The research team has created MicroSpine, a new technique to produce microscale superstructures that have both soft and hard materials that mimic the spine structure and can act as microactuators with shape-changing properties, with the aim of advancing biomimetic nanoscale materials. Colloidal assembly, a straightforward process in which nano- and microparticles spontaneously organize into ordered spatial patterns, was used to make this discovery.
Chemists create the microspine with shape-transforming properties for targeted cargo delivery at microscale
