{"id":287923,"date":"2017-03-16T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6fd9e4f78ee3858f96d7a9c78cbaf503"},"modified":"2017-03-16T10:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T14:00:45","slug":"the-repulsion-trick-a-self-solving-puzzle-for-organic-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=287923","title":{"rendered":"The repulsion trick: A self-solving puzzle for organic molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J\u00fclich researchers have succeeded in controlling the growth of organic molecules using a special trick. Molecules that repel each other play a key role in this process: due to their opposing forces, they always keep a certain distance from their neighbours. Therefore, they mix easily with a second, mutually attracting type of molecule that enters the spaces in-between and acts as a sort of &#8220;glue&#8221;. Tailored surface structures can thus be put together like pieces in a puzzle &#8211; in a seemingly self-solving manner. Applications in the field of organic electronics in particular could stand to benefit from this method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J&uuml;lich researchers have succeeded in controlling the growth of organic molecules using a special trick. Molecules that repel each other play a key role in this process: due to their opposing forces, they always keep a certain distance from their neighbours. Therefore, they mix easily with a second, mutually attracting type of molecule that enters the spaces in-between and acts as a sort of &#8220;glue&#8221;. Tailored surface structures can thus be put together like pieces in a puzzle &#8211; in a seemingly self-solving manner. Applications in the field of organic electronics in particular could stand to benefit from this method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287924,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287923\/revisions\/287924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}